Fake, obscene profile created in CA’s name, cops suspect revenge act

Incidentally, as per the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), revenge has been the third highest motive in cases of cyber crimes across the country.

Elaborating on the case, an officer said this seemed to be a well planned act as the accused had initially created a profile in the name of a “good looking girl” and sent friend requests to several persons on the victim’s friend list.

Over a period of time, some of his relatives and friends accepted the friend requests.

“Either on Sunday or Monday, the accused changed the name and photograph on the profile of ‘girl’ to that of the victim. He then put up a post saying he was into supplying call girls and put up two obscene photographs along with the post. He then tagged 42 people from the victim’s friend list on Facebook. He could tag them as they had accepted his friend request that he had sent with a girl’s photograph,” said an officer from the BKC cyber police station who did not wish to be named. The police suspect that the accused may have taken at least two-three days to create the page and send requests to his friends.

The FIR has been registered under sections 418 (cheating with knowledge that wrongful loss may ensue), 500 (defamation) read with sections 66 C (identity theft) and 66 D (cheating by impersonation) of the Information Technology (IT) Act. Talking to The Indian Express, the victim said, “In addition to myself, even my relatives and friends had to suffer because of this. I cannot think of anyone who would want to get back at me and resort to such methods. I hope the police can track down the person behind this.”

An officer probing the case said networking sites were prime targets of people looking to take revenge against anyone. In most cases, the accused is someone from the friend circle, classmate or colleague. “In fact, there have been cases when a victim after finding out that someone close was behind the crime ask us to not press charges against the person. We suspect even in this case it is someone who is known to the victim is behind this,” said the officer.

mohamed.thaver@expressindia.com