In an Internet sex crime case reported in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, a 24-year-old man allegedly followed an underage girl and tricked her into uploading obscene photos and video clips online. After the minor’s father filed a complaint, the Ahmedabad cybercrime team detained the defendant on Tuesday.
A police officer said the complaint alleges that an unidentified person used Instagram, a popular social media platform for sharing photos and videos, to befriend his young daughter. According to a report published by The Indian Express, the police officer added that the person then groomed the minor and posted her obscene video clips and photos to different social media platforms . With the help of technical intelligence, cybercrime detectives captured the defendant from his home on Tuesday.
According to section 354D (stalking) of the Indian Penal Code and the relevant provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, a lawsuit has been filed against him. Related accusations under the Information Technology Amendment Act have also been invoked on him. “We also found that the defendant followed the same modus operandi and obtained obscene pictures and videos of several other women on social media,” the IE report quoted the official as saying. A few weeks ago, a 16-year-old girl from Delhi was allegedly kidnapped and had sex by a man who became friends with her through a social network mobile application.
The defendant later sold the teenager to another man who wanted to marry her. After she was reported missing, Delhi police began to work hard to find her. In July, the police managed to rescue her from the Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh. After being rescued, the minor told the police that she had contacted a Rajeev Garg through a mobile app called Welike.
He pretended to be a girl on the platform. Soon after, she blocked his account, but he kept contacting her with a different mobile phone number. At his insistence, she agreed with him. When she met him, he allegedly kidnapped her. After that, he sexually assaulted her and later sold her to another man named Ram Mohan for 50,000 rupees. Mohan bought her to get married.
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