AHMEDABAD: Cybercrime sleuths on Tuesday arrested a 29-year-old unemployed man, Pavan Avadhya, an Odhav resident, for allegedly uploading a lascivious picture of his ex-girlfriend as the WhatsApp status on the number she was formerly using.
The victim had on Monday filed an FIR with the cybercrime police station in this regard. She stated that she had used the number in question till about October 2020 when it got deactivated. She stated that the lascivious picture had been taken by Avadhya on his phone, when the two were in a relationship. The number in question was registered in Avadhya’s name, but she had been using it. As she had been using the number, and the lascivious picture had been put up in the WhatsApp status, it had potentially reached all her friends and relatives.
A statement issued by the city police said the investigation in the case was handed over to inspector R J Chaudhary. After securing the technical data regarding the case, investigators zeroed in on Avadhya and arrested him.
Police said that on interrogating Avadhya, he revealed that he and the complainant had studied in the same tuition class in 2013-14 and were in a relationship, but later broke up. Avadhya had borrowed money from the complainant, which she demanded back. He offered to pay it back in parts, but she did not agree and informed his family members about the debt.
Avadhya stated that he later married another woman, and the complainant had told her false things about him, causing friction between them. Angered, he decided to get back at the complainant by embarrassing her. He thus got the complainant’s old number reactivated. He then posted the lascivious picture he had clicked as the WhatsApp status on that number.