Mumbai Shocker: Boy Poses as Cop, Calls Girl’s Father to Obtain Her Phone Number, Later Sends Him Morphed Nude Images of Her
A deeply unsettling case of cyber harassment has come to light in Mumbai’s Kanjurmarg, where a man posing as a police officer attempted to fraudulently obtain a minor girl’s phone number. When the girl’s father refused, the accused sent him morphed nude images of his daughter. The call was later traced back to a boy from the girl’s college.
Kanjurmarg, May 18: A deeply unsettling case of cyber harassment has come to light in Mumbai’s Kanjurmarg, where a man posing as a police officer attempted to fraudulently obtain a minor girl’s phone number. When the girl’s father refused, the accused sent him morphed nude images of his daughter. The call was later traced back to a boy from the girl’s college.
According to Indian Express, the complainant, a 50-year-old man, received a message on May 2 from an unknown number. The sender, identifying herself as Mokshada Patil from the Cyber Crime office in Kanjurmarg, even proposed marriage to the man. She later warned him of a potential cyber attack on his daughter’s phone and shared a number for guidance. Man Creates Fake Social Media Accounts of Mumbai Woman, Uploads Her Morphed Nude Pics After She Ends Friendship.
However, after the complainant did not share his daughter’s number and she did not call the provided number, he received morphed nude images of his daughter. The images were allegedly obtained from the minor girl’s social media profiles. Revenge Porn Case Shocks Nagpur: Man Arrested for Sending Nude Pics, Explicit Chats Of Ex-Girlfriend To Her Husband And Others on Pen Drives.
Upon showing the images and the shared number to his daughter, she identified the number on Truecaller as belonging to a classmate from her college. The man and his daughter then approached the police and filed a complaint against the two mobile phone users.
The police have registered an FIR under sections 354, 500, 509 of the IPC, sections 66 and 67B of the Information Technology Act, and section 12 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. “We have registered a case and no arrest has been made yet. We are investigating the matter and since the matter is sensitive and involves minors we cannot divulge case details,” said a sub-inspector officer part of the probe.
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