Girl molested by youth after obscene posts on FB; 3 booked

A 27-year-old man allegedly molested a minor girl and blackmailed her by creating a fake Facebook account in her name to post obscene messages and pictures, police said on Sunday. Three persons, including the youth and two of his woman friends, have been booked in this connection, they said. The man, who is a close relative of the 16-year-old victim’s father, allegedly created the fake account on Facebook last year. 

He then purportedly sent obscene pictures and messages from the fake account to a female friend of his, who is also an acquaintance of the victim, said Senior Police Inspector Gajanan Kabdule of Naupada police station, based on a complaint filed by the victim’s mother.

In August last year, the man sent screenshots of certain messages sent from the fake account to the victim on her mobile messenger WhatsApp and allegedly blackmailed her.

He also called her to a place in Thane’s Naupada locality where he allegedly molested and beat her up, police said. The man later got the obscene messages deleted from his female friend’s account.