Bengaluru, Nov 25: A 26-year-old techie from Hyderabad, who allegedly tried to blackmail a Bengaluru woman into marriage by using her morphed pictures, has been arrested. He also pretended to be an intelligence officer to access her email credentials, saying her account had been hacked.
When Bengaluru police reached Hyderabad to arrest him, Borinchi Raju, claimed he was an Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer. Raju, a private firm employee, and the Bengaluru woman were classmates in college and later worked together.
However, a few years ago, the woman left her job in Hyderabad and moved to Bengaluru.
Raju, who desperately wanted to marry the woman, constantly messaged her from different mobile numbers. He used eight sim cards to contact her. He even impersonated an IB officer and called the woman, claiming her email account had been hacked and managed to extract her credentials.
When the duo was in college, the woman had approached Raju to fix a glitch in her laptop's operating system. During that time, Raju had allegedly downloaded data, including her photographs. He kept a watch on her using a fake Facebook account in the name of Lakshmi Raj, and kept track of her by accessing her email account. The woman's marriage was recently fixed to a Bengalurean.
Learning about the development, an upset Raju pressured the woman to marry him. However, she ignored him. Recently, he emailed the woman her morphed pictures and threatened to send them to her fiance. The woman, however, didn't pay attention to his threat.
A few days later, he emailed the obscene pictures to the woman's fiance, saying she had a questionable character. The fiance approached police and lodged a complaint. The woman and her family members too filed a complaint.
After gathering information from the woman, police arrested Raju from Hyderabad.
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