Gadwal man nabbed for outraging woman’s modesty on Facebook
Hyderabad: An engineering student landed in soup after he tried to get even with a woman by posting her photos on a fake Facebook account ostensibly soliciting ‘customers’, in Jogulamba Gadwal district of Telangana.
The arrested man had claimed to be angry with the woman after she quarrelled with his mother, police said quoting his confession statement.
The arrested man identified as Giriraj (25), residing near Alampur Chowrasta was taken into custody after a painstaking investigation into the cyber harassment case. Giriraj was alleged to have posted some photos of the woman, a homemaker with the message that she would spend time with ‘customers’ for monetary consideration. He had also uploaded photos of her husband, in-laws and children too just to given an impression that the Facebook account was genuine.
The woman approached the police after she got many calls from strangers. The Gadwal police registered a case and then began long haul investigation, that was often frustrating for the cyber cell officials who issued a notice to the Facebook under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure and some time later they received some information which could help the investigators identify the computer or a phone from which the photos were uploaded. Armed with the information, the investigators then approached the mobile phone operators and finally managed to get the mobile phone IP address from which the Facebook account was created and photos were uploaded.
The next milestone in the investigation was to locate the mobile handset and armed with the information given by the mobile phone company information, it was an easy job to locate Giriraj and take him into custody. The accused and the complainant in the case were living in the same locality. Giriraj told the interrogators that he was angry with the woman as she quarelled with his mother. As he developed a grudge on her, Giriraj had managed to transfer some photos of the woman and her family members from her phone to his phone on the pretext of helping when the women’s children sought his help to configure the zoom application to attend online classes. Later, he created a fake Facebook account and posted messages.
Giriraj now faces the prospect of a jail term for three years to five years under the provisions of the IPC and Information Act. Gadwal DSP A Yadagiri supervised the investigation.
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