Sunday, May 13, 2012

Jilted lover takes cyber revenge

NEW DELHI: Rejected by the girl he loved since his school days, a final year LLB student created her fake profile on Facebook and uploaded obscene pictures of an unknown woman on the website. Two months after the girl lodged a police complaint, the crime branch has finally managed to nab the youth.

The victim, daughter of an east Delhi businessman, and the accused, Shubham Kansal (22), had been classmates at school. After school, the two lost touch but Kansal rediscovered the girl on Facebook. He proposed a long-term relationship with the 21-year-old but she declined. Swearing vengeance, Kansal took months to plot his revenge. He created a fake Facebook profile in the girl's name and posted her personal information on it.

According to Ashok Chand, additional CP (crime), the girl had approached Delhi Police's Special Investigation Team (SIT) on March 6 claiming that she had been receiving multiple calls from random men seeking unsolicited friendship. "She told cops that the nature of the conversations was offensive and she had been facing severe mental trauma for two weeks," said Chand.

"The girl had discovered that her mobile number had also been uploaded on her fake profile along with the obscene pictures. The account also invited friendship requests from men. We registered a case based on her complaint,'' said DCP (crime) Sanjay Jain. The police team contacted Facebook and got the IP address with the help of technical experts. Kansal was finally arrested from his residence at Dilshad Garden on May 11. "He was arrested under the IT Act for sending offensive messages by means of a computer resource or a communication device for the purpose of causing annoyance," said Jain.

Kansal disclosed that he devised the plan after watching a movie in February when all his efforts to re-establish contact with the girl failed, said additional DCP (SIT) Joy Tirkey.

The accused and the vclaiming that she had

The accused and the victim were old friends. But when she spurned his advances, he posted obsene photos and gave out her phone number in the fake profile on Facebook.

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