Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, July 4

The police have arraested a 20-year-old youth for harassing a minor girl and curculating her pictures on social media without her consent.

The accused has been identified as Gurpreet Singh, a resident of Wadala village.

He had been stalking his 17-year-old schoolmate and blackmailed her by circulating her objectionable pictures and video on WhatsApp.

The Lambra police have booked Gurpreet under Sections 376 and 506 of the IPC, 67 of the IT Act and Sections 3 and 4 of the POCSO Act.

Lambra police station SHO Sukhdev Singh said, “An FIR was resgistered by the girl and her family yesterday and she also gave a detailed statement. Gurpeet was nabbed within an hour of the complaint. They were both classmates and he had been following the girl for a long time. He was balckmailing her by threatening her that he would post her morphed videos on WhatsApp. He also called the victim to his home and made objectionable videos and clicked photographs of her. When the girl asked him not to do this, he posted these on social media. Whne the girl’s family got to know of the incident, the victim and her father registered a complaint. Gurpreet has been arrested and remanded to two-day police custody.”