Ahmedabad:
In yet another case of harassment through social networking sites, officials of cyber crime cell of Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) has arrested a civil engineering student. The student allegedly harassed a girl and threatened to post obscene pictures of her through a dummy account on Facebook.
The DCB nabbed Kunal Khambayata, a third year civil engineering student of Ganpat University, from his college in Mehsana after it was found that he had used the internet to harass the girl.
The student accessed internet from his home in Rajkot.
Police inspector, cyber crime cell, DCB, PC Solanki told DNA that Khambayata had been home for a vacation and it was then that he started harassing the girl by making a fake profile of hers on Facebook and posting obscene posts on her wall.
Solanki further said that Khambayata had allegedly threatened to post morphed obscene pictures of her in the dummy account. "The girl was very disturbed due to the harassment," he said.
Sources said Khambayata copied the photograph of the girl, who was a senior at his college. He then asked her to meet him or else threatened to post morphed pictures of her on the fake account.
"He kept on messaging her and posting things on her wall," a police source said. The girl is the daughter of a government official and lives in Ahmedabad.
The police nabbed Khambayata from his college after he returned there following his vacation. "He used the internet from his home in Rajkot. The internet connection was registered in his father's name," a police source said. Khambayata is on police remand till Thursday.
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