Guwahati, Dec. 10 : The CID of Assam police has arrested a computer engineering student from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh on charges of morphing nude photographs of a girl from Guwahati with whom he had developed an “affair” through a social networking site.
Arpit Bhargav, 19, was arrested yesterday from his residence at Jabalpur based on a complaint lodged by the girl and her father on November 19.
A two-member CID team arrested the third semester computer engineering student of Takshila Institute of Technology, Jabalpur, with the help of Madhya Pradesh police. He is being brought here.
CID sources said according to the complaint lodged by the girl, Bhargav got in touch with her through a social networking site two years ago when she was studying in New Delhi and they developed an “affair”.
The boy used a fake profile photograph in his account and both exchanged photographs through the site.
“According to the complaint, both were in touch through the networking site for a long time and fell in love.
They exchanged photographs and even talked over mobile phone but when she came to know that the boy’s photographs were fakes, she stopped talking to him and gradually tried to snap ties with him.
But Arpit sent threat messages in her profile and sent SMSs from three mobile phone numbers.
When the girl asked him not to contact her anymore, Arpit morphed her nude photographs and uploaded these on the networking site,” a CID officer said today.
Based on the complaint, the cyber crime sleuths of the CID started an investigation and blocked Arpit’s profile on the networking site but the engineering student opened another similar account and again uploaded morphed nude photographs of the girl.
“We had a tough time to locate the boy as the photographs uploaded in his account were not his original. But we finally traced the mobile tower from where Arpit sent SMSs to the girl to Azad Bakeri at Jayanagar in Jabalpur. We reached Jabalpur on Tuesday and apprehended him with the help of local police,” the CID officer said.
The CID sources said the three mobile phones which Arpit used to send text messages to the girl were in his mother’s name.
The CID team seized the three mobile phones and the computer set used by the boy. They also found obscene morphed photographs of the girl stored in his computer.
Arpit has been booked under Sections 66A/67A of IT Act 2000 and was produced in the court of Jabalpur chief judicial magistrate.
The CJM remanded him in the custody of Assam CID for a week.
