The Free Press Journal

Man uploads friend’s obscene pics on Instagram, held

- STAFF REPORTER

The Dharavi Police arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly demanding sexual favours from his Instagram friend. The accused Shrirang Shinde alias Ashish Pawar, 30, has allegedly uploaded the victim's obscene photograph­s on Instagram af ter she turned down his request. According to the police, Shinde befriended with the Dharavi resident woman, 37, on Instagram a couple of months ago, and since then both of them have been chatting each other. According to her, she shared her nude photograph­s with Shinde, however, after he got hold of her photograph­s he started persuing her to meet him and started demanding sexual favours, however, she denied and started avoiding him. The woman also blocked him on Instagram. According to the police, the accused then created an account on Instagram similar to that of the woman's ID and uploaded her photograph­s. He then shared link with her and threatened to share the link with her family and relatives

Fed up with harassment, the woman approached Dharavi police which registered an offence under the relevant sections of IPC and under the IT Act. The police then asked the woman to call him at Sanjay Gandhi National Park at Borivali for a meeting. A team of PI Jivan Kharat, API Santosh Tapase, PSI Ankush Jadhav and cybercrime investigat­or Puskmar Zantye laid a trap and nabbed him on Thursday as he arrived.

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from India