The Aul police arrested and forwarded to court one Sashikanta Mallick, a Plus Three second year college student of Ayetapur village under Kalaspur GP, on Wednesday, for posting obscene and slang messages in a fake ID in the name of a girl student of his college in Facebook.
When the matter came to the notice of the girl, she lodged an FIR at Aul police station. Aul police later registered a case bearing case no -253/22 and started an inquiry. During grilling, Mallick confessed to the crime.
The court remanded him in jail custody after his bail pleas were rejected, informed Aul police station IIC Dillip Sahu.
In another incident, the Rajkanika police with the help of cyber cell arrested one Sumant Kumar Mohanty, a resident of Hatia village, for sending photos and obscene messages to his friends by opening a fake ID of a fellow village girl.
Though he had been doing the nuisance for the last five years, the victim girl recently lodged an FIR. The police seized the mobile phone that was used in the crime. The arrested youth was later produced in a local court where he was remanded in jail custody after his bail pleas were rejected, Rajkanika police station IIC Bilwamangal Sethi informed.