English literature graduate held for blackmailing girl

New Delhi: A 26-year-old english Literature Graduate was arrested from Kollam in Kerala for blackmailing and extorting innocent girls using morphed pictures and video.

Police identified the accused as Akhil Ajayan (26).

According to police CyPAD, the Cyber Crime Unit of Delhi Police received a complaint from a distressed father who alleged that one person who was his daughter's Facebook friend, had sent him and his family members morphed, sexually explicit photos and videos of his daughter and threatened that if he didn't pay Rs 8 lakh, the accused would share the offensive photos and videos with the complainant's friends and other relatives in WhatsApp and social media.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (cyber) Anyesh Roy said the accused is also extremely fond of travelling and needed a lot of money for the same.

It has come out that he has befriended other innocent girls, including a Brazilian national. He had travelled to Turkey earlier this year to meet the Brazilian woman and had taken 6000 USD from her.

"The accused Akhil Ajayan informed during interrogation that with the help of the extorted Rs. 8 Lakh, he had planned to escape and settle in Brazil," said DCP Roy.

He worked as a petrol pump manager, where he used a scheme of a Public Sector Oil Company to reward loyal customers, HP DriveTrack, to his own advantage.

He would collect cash from customers and use the DriveTrack card of his friends and family members to make payment and get a 5 per cent cash back.

On further interrogation, he disclosed that he had taken a loan to buy IPHONE Xs Max for around Rs. 1.25 lakh and didn't have the money to repay it.

The team of ACP Aditya Gautam made the arrest.