Hyderabad: Techie held for harassing woman on Instagram

Hyderabad: A software employee, who began chatting with a married woman on Instagram posing as her childhood friend, was arrested on Tuesday by the Rachakonda Cybercrime police on charges of cyber stalking and harassing the woman. The arrested person, M Prasanth (30), a resident of Chengicherla and native of Karimnagar, while randomly searching for profiles […]

Hyderabad: A software employee, who began chatting with a married woman on Instagram posing as her childhood friend, was arrested on Tuesday by the Rachakonda Cybercrime police on charges of cyber stalking and harassing the woman.

The arrested person, M Prasanth (30), a resident of Chengicherla and native of Karimnagar, while randomly searching for profiles of women on Instagram, had come across the victim’s profile and sent a follow request, which was accepted by the unsuspecting victim.

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“When she allowed him to follow her profile, he collected her WhatsApp number from her previous posts and started chatting with her posing as her childhood friend. He also made a video call and harassed her,” police said.

He also created a fake profile of the victim on Instagram and sent friend requests to all her friends. He sent abusive messages and videos to those who accepted his friend requests.

Following a complaint from the victim’s husband, a case was booked and Prasanth was arrested.