Coimbatore: A 22-year-old engineering student from Thoothukudi district has been arrested for sending obscene photos of his ex-lover, a city resident, to her father on WhatsApp.
An investigation officer said S Devaneshwar, of Lions Town in Thoothukudi, had befriended the girl from Kovaipudur in the city at a private engineering college at Hosur in Krishnagiri district.
“They are classmates and fell in love a few years ago. He had taken intimate photos of them and stored them on his mobile phone. The girl, also aged 22 years, had come home after the lockdown. When her parents came to know about the relationship, they advised her to end the same,” the officer said.
The girl subsequently started to avoid him. “He called her up, telling that he wanted to marry her and asked her to come out of her house. When she refused to obey him, he threatened to circulate their intimate photos on social media and WhatsApp them to her father. The girl then revealed all the incidents to her father,” the officer said.
Meanwhile, Devaneshwar sent the obscene photos to the girl’s father on October 31. On Monday, the girl lodged a complaint with the Kuniyamuthur police, who registered a case against Devaneshwar and asked her to invite him to the city on the pretext of considering his proposal.
When Devaneshwar arrived in the city the same evening, police arrested him.