NEW DELHI: A 17-year-old undergraduate student was apprehended for allegedly befriending a minor girl on Instagram and threatening to circulate her private pictures on social media if she didn’t send him her unclothed pictures. The boy was also threatening other girls for sexual favours, senior police officers said.The boy is a student of School of Open Learning, Delhi University. The iPhone he was using to threaten girls has been recovered from him, police said.The matter came to light when the victim’s father filed a complaint with the police on January 25, alleging that his 14-year-old daughter had shared her photos and videos with someone through Instagram chats and that the person was now threatening to make those pictures public.“The girl said that the boy was pressuring her to indulge into obscene chats and send him more of her photos. Based on her statement, a case was registered. During the investigation, it was found that the SIM card to which the IP address of the accused was registered belonged to a 50-year-old man,” said deputy commissioner of police (North) Sagar Singh Kalsi.“Our teams started door-to-door search and vendors and locals from the area were shown the suspect’s Instagram picture for identification. The boy was finally identified and it was revealed that he was using a SIM issued on his father’s identity. A raid was conducted and the boy wasn’t found at home but was later caught. During questioning, he said that he came in possession of some private pictures of a girl and started following her on Instagram. He kept her private pictures saved on his mobile phone and used to stalk her online all the time,” the DCP said.Kalsi said, after befriending her, the boy started asking for her nude photos. “However, when the girl refused, he showed her nude photos he already had with him and demanded more such photos and sexual favours from her. The boy was apprehended and a case under Indian Penal Code sections 354A (sexual harassment), 354D (sextortion) and relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act was registered against him,” the officer said.
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