Man arrested for running girl's fake Facebook account

Update: 2018-08-02 18:30 GMT

NEW DELHI: The Cyber Cell of Delhi Police has arrested a man for creating fake profile of girls and posting their morphed photographs on social media platforms like Facebook. The accused Vijay is a resident of Gurugram.

The matter came to light when a complainant alleging that somebody has created a fake account on a popular social media platform in her name and is uploading her photos, obscene messages and photographs on that account. That social media account is also sending friend requests as well as her morphed vulgar images to people in her friends' list. During investigation, it was found that the complainant was also approached through various other social media accounts. These accounts were having large friends' list of female members. When the complainant blocked these social media accounts, she again got friend requests from various other accounts and whenever she accepted them, she came to know that the same person was creating these accounts and sending vulgar, obscene materials.

"The concerned social media platform was contacted and details of the account were collected. After thorough technical investigation, one Vijay was identified who worked at the IGI as a helper and subsequently arrested on 31 July," said Anyesh Roy, DCP Cyber Cell. 

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