Hyderabad:
Cyberabad police today arrested a 25-year-old youth for allegedly harassing a girl through
abusive/vulgar messages and obscene pictures after creating a fake account on a social network website in her name.
The accused S Praveen Kumar alias Raju, a MSc graduate, created a fake email-Id and later opened an account using the photo of the victim in Orkut and pasted her photographs and some obscene scenes collected from different websites and wrote vulgar comments in that account.
He even used to respond to the messages and emails to that account, a release from the Cyberabad Police said.
"The accused with an intention to defame the girl created an account on her name with vulgar comments and obscene photographs," it said adding Praveen Kumar was nabbed from
Gandhi Nagar.
The Cyber Crime Police station of Cyberabad Commissionerate registered a case against Praveen Kumar under Section 509 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of IPC and under relevant sections of the IT Act.