Man creates fake FB profile to talk with estranged wife

Vadodara: A man living on Laxmipura Road was arrested by the Vadodara rural police for creating his sister-in-law’s fake Facebook profile to reach out to his estranged wife.
Police said that the accused Chetan Rohit’s wife Vaishali had moved to her parents’ home in Savli as the couple used to bicker a lot. Since Vaishali was not responding to his calls and messages, Rohit created a fake Facebook profile of Vaishali’s cousin Renuka Solanki. Rohit sent friend requests to several family members to make it look genuine.
Since Vaishali was also in the friend list, Rohit started calling her through Facebook messenger, but would not speak anything when she answered. Meanwhile, on June 17, Solanki came across the profile in which the profile picture was also same as her real account. Solanki and her husband Hasmukh started probing about the creator of the account by asking family members who were in the friend list. Cops said that when Rohit got a whiff of it, he called Hasmukh to admit that he had created the fake profile and apologized for it. He said that he wanted to talk to Vaishali so he had created the profile.
Later, Rohit was asked to delete the profile. However, since he did not and continued using it, Solanki lodged an offence under the Information Technology Act at Vadu police station.