A 17-year-old boy from Kanniyakumari, who morphed the images of a city-based juvenile girl in an obscene manner after downloading them from her Instagram account and threatened her to sex chat with him to avoid the images getting leaked on social media has been arrested by the cyber cell of Mylapore police district.
Chennai:
A senior police officer said that Instagram and the network provider concerned understood the graveness of the offence and immediately shared the particulars needed for the investigation which eventually led to the arrest of the offender.
The victim, a schoolgirl, recently approached the police saying she has been getting messages on Instagram with morphed photos of herself demanding to sex chat with the person and threatening that the photos would be leaked on the social media.
Since the girl felt ‘suicidal’ about the whole incident, police gave counselling to the victim as well as to her parents assuring that the culprits would be nabbed.
A case was registered and Instagram was approached to provide police with details to trace the offender. Police later tracked the person to Kanniyakumari and were shocked to find out that the offender is also a juvenile, 17-year-old schoolboy.
Investigation revealed that he had already committed a similar offence but was let off with a warning. The team brought the offender to Chennai and produced him before the Juvenile Justice Board after booking him under the Pocso Act.
“He started following her on Instagram and later downloaded her images and morphed it in an obscene manner. He personally sent her the photos and threatened her that he would release them in public if she does not sex chat with him,” a police official told DT Next.
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