Bengaluru, Aug 16: A 23-year-old man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly blackmailing his former girlfriend using photographs of her private moments.
Kiran, 23, a resident of Chikkabanaswadi, and the woman were in a relationship for three years. They worked in a salon in Banaswadi. She had shared private photos and videos with him and he had saved them. He had also recorded videos of their intimate moments.
Recently, they broke up and she began avoiding Kiran who shared her photos with a cousin and another friend. He threatened her that he’d share the photos on social media.
On August 10, she filed a complaint with cybercrime police. Police arrested Kiran, who confessed to blackmailing the woman.
Another complaint
In a similar case, a 29-year-old central government employee from Koramangala recently complained to police that her former classmate was blackmailing her with her private photographs.
Police sources said Ravithej Yadav Bathula was the woman’s classmate in a Hyderabad engineering college. He had managed to get her private photographs when they were friends. Ravi hacked her Facebook account in 2016 and started posting explicit content on her page, tagging relatives and family members. The woman immediately posted: “Hi friends, my fb account was hacked and posted some mischief content by tagging my friends, please ignore that post."
Four years ago, Ravi began blackmailing her, demanding she meet him, failing which he’d share her photographs with her family. The woman, who is now married, shared her ordeal with her family and with Ravi's parents, but he continued to blackmail her.
Koramangala police registered her complaint on Tuesday and said the case will be transferred to the cybercrime police station. Cybercrime police said in most revenge porn cases, the accused are known to complainants.
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