Cyber crime cell has nabbed a 21-year-old youth on the charge of creating fake facebook profile using photographs of women and girls, sending friend request and obscene comments; accused was nabbed from Gandhi Nagar.
Police said that the victim is a sales manager and found that her photograph was used to create a fake facebook profile and sent friend request and indecent comments using the fake profile.
The accused identified as Vikrant Singh of Gandhi Nagar took the photographs of the victim to creating fake profile in the name of Akanksha. Vikrant is a student of RKDF College and pursuing Bachelors in Engineering from Mechanical branch.
The victim lodged a complaint with the Cyber crime cell regarding the accused who used her photograph to create a fake profile and using the same profile friend request and indecent comments were sent to other girls and women over face book.
During the investigation the accused told the police that he used to search for girls and women over face book but the easier way was to become friend was using profile of woman and after which he created fake profile using victim’s photographs.
The victim came to know after one of her friends informed regarding the fake profile and its misuse. During the investigation police found that the profile was operated from Gandhi Nagar and nabbed the accused.
The police registered a case under section 67 and 67 A of the IPC and started further investigation. The credentials of the accused are being further investigated, besides searching for his crime record is also on.