An FIR against unknown persons has been registered under sections of the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act.Cyber fraudsters targetted a 33-year-old man from Mumbai by giving him a small loan and circulating a morphed pornographic video with his images to those on his phone’s contact list when the man failed to repay the amount, the police said.
The police have registered an FIR against unknown persons under sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act for sending obscene content and for sexual harassment, as the video was sent to women as well.
According to the complainant, in November last year he took a loan for Rs 7,000 through online transactions. While submitting his documents for the loan, he granted access to the contact list on his phone. When he failed to repay the money, recovery agents morphed his photographs into a pornographic video and sent it to several of his contacts, he said.
The complainant said the video was sent to more than 12 people among his family and friends, including four women.
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He then approached the local police in Vasai-Virar area, where he stays, but was directed to the Mumbai Central Government Railway Police station, as he had completed the process of taking the loan when he was at Dadar railway station, which falls under the railway police’s jurisdiction.
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