NOIDA: Two people were arrested from the Chuharpur underpass in Greater Noida on Saturday for allegedly making a 23-year-old woman’s fake Instagram account and uploading her morphed pictures. The accused also uploaded her contact number on an adult website.According to police, the accused were identified as Adarsh Gupta (22), a resident of Unnao and Sunny Kumar (23), a resident of Greater Noida tried to defame the woman due to a personal agenda. Adarsh studies in the same college as the complainant and is known to her from her hometown Unnao.The medical student of a private college in Greater Noida lodged a complaint at the Beta-2 police station in January after which the two men were nabbed.Anjani Singh, SHO of Beta-2 police station said that the complainant learned from her friend that a fake account had been created on social media with her morphed pictures as well as contact number. “Her edited and morphed pictures were uploaded on the social media website and her personal contact number was also uploaded on an adult website,” he said.During the investigation, the contact numbers of the accused were put on surveillance by the police.”On Saturday, the suspects were traced and arrested. It was found that the two tried to defame the woman due to a personal agenda,” Singh said.The accused were booked under sections 500 (defamation), 506 (criminal intimidation), 120B (criminal conspiracy), 509 (gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the IPC and relevant sections of the IT act.”The fake account has been disabled by the suspects now and the complainant’s contact number has been removed from the adult website. The two suspects were produced before the court on Saturday and sent to judicial custody,” added Singh.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/noida/2-upload-morphed-pics-of-woman-on-insta-arrested/articleshow/98075598.cms
