Cyber crime sleuths of Cyberabad have arrested one Mekala Yeshwanth Reddy, 21, of Hayathnagar for demanding money from a girl student of a private engineering college to delete her obscene morphed pictures from a fake Facebook profile created by him.
Based on a complaint from the victim, a case was registered under relevant provisions of Information Technology Act, at Cyber Crime PS, Gachibowli and investigation revealed that the culprit along with his friend plotted to earn easy money by posting morphed obscene pictures of their junior and demanded money from her to refrain from posting it further in public pages of their college on social networking sites.
The sleuths arrested Yeshwanth on December 20 and his personal computer from which he uploaded the obscene pictures was seized from his residence.
The case is being investigated by Mohammad Riyazuddin, Inspector of Police, Cyber Crime PS, assisted by Sub-Inspector: K. Vijayvardhan under guidance of M. Snehita, ACP, Cyber Crime PS, Cyberabad and supervision of B. Srinivas Reddy, Addl. DCP (Crimes), Cyberabad.
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