A 24-year-old youth, employed by a leading automobile company, was arrested for making a fake Facebook account and uploading a Noida-based girl’s morphed photographs
The victim’s elder sister registered an FIR last month at Sector 39 Police Station. Police said that the accused has been identified as Anuj Tyagi, a resident of Meerut. He was arrested by Saharanpur Police for committing similar crimes with other women earlier.
According to police, Tyagi made a fake account of the victim; he put in the details of the girl, copied her picture from her actual account, morphed it with a nude picture and then uploaded on a social networking site. He also forwarded its link to the family members of the victim and threatened her to share the same with others. "We received a complaint and were tracking the IP address used by the accused," said Vishwajeet Srivastav, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Cyber Cell), Noida.
"We traced his location in Meerut and arrested him. Tyagi has used the same modus operandi in other districts," said the DSP Tyagi has completed MBA from a reputed college of Meerut and was working with an auto-mobile company. He has been booked under relevant Sections of the IT Act.