Dehradun Police have arrested two persons on Tuesday for sending lewd photos and messages to a minor girl. The accused have been identified as Ankit Kshetri and Raman Rawat, residents of Chander Nagar, Dehradun.
Special Task Froce (STF) Uttarakhand SSP Sadanand Date said that a case under Section 506 of IPC and 66 IT Act was registered against unidentified persons in Patelnagar police station after the girl’s father had registered a complaint. The complainant stated that some unidentified people had written vulgar and objectionable messages as well as pasted lewd photographs and abuses on the Facebook account of his minor daughter. As the complaint was related to cyber crimes, the Patelnagar police officer had sought technical support from cyber crime police station. SSP Date had deputed sub-inspector Dev Prakash Thapliyal to provide technical support to the Patelnagar police officer to help them to crack the case.
Thapliyal started his work, identified the accused and provided a report to the Patelngar police station. Acting on the report, police have arrested Ankit Kshetri and his friend Raman Rawat on Tuesday. Investigation revealed that Ankit Kshetri had used his facebook account to send messages from the mobile phone of Raman Rawat. Ankit Kshetri said while being grilled that his friend had helped him open the facebook account. Raman Rawat admitted to having sent messages to the girl from the Facebook account of Ankit for fun. He said he was unaware of such things amounting to punishable offences.
STF chief constable Sunil Bhatt, Patelnagar Police station in-charge Pankaj Gairola and sub- insecptor Vinay Saini were among those who played roles to crack the case, it is learnt.