Delhi: 23-year-old man arrested for circulating morphed nudes of newly-wed woman

A 23yearold man was arrested for allegedly sending morphed nude pictures and obscene videos of a woman to her inlaws and other relatives on social media in revenge for turning him down police said MondayThe man allegedly sent the pictures through a fake Instagram account they saidAnkit Bansal the accused hails from Tughlakabad village and presently lives in Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh they said Bansal was previously found involved in a case of rape registered at Govindpuri Police Station police said adding he is a Staff Selection Commission aspirantThe matter was reported by the woman 22 a resident of Wazirabad at Cyber Police Station alleging that she had recently got married and some unknown person had been sending her morphed videos to her husband friends and inlaws family on InstagramAlso Read Sikkim police official kills 3 colleagues at Delhis Haiderpur water treatment plantDeputy Commissioner of Police North Sagar Singh Kalsi said On the basis of her complaint a case was registered on July 16 under sections 469 forgery for purpose of harming reputation 500 punishment for defamation and 509 word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman of the Indian Penal Code and investigation of the case was taken upDuring investigation details of the alleged profile were sought from Instagram and on the basis of it police obtained IP addresses and mobile number used in the registration of the alleged profile Kalsi saidThese IP addresses were further technically analysed and the identity of the accused person was ascertained as Ankit Bansal he saidWhen the victim was questioned she told police that the Bansals family had earlier come with a marriage proposal to her but due to his criminal background she had turned him down the officer saidPolice said they have seized the mobile phone and SIM card used in the offence from the possession of the accusedWhen Bansal was interrogated he revealed that he had met the womans uncle some time ago and his family had proposed to consider him for marriage the officer saidTalks were on for fixing their marriage and both the victim and the accused had started talking on phoneHowever in a turn of events the marriage could not be fixed as the victims uncle came to know about a rape case registered against the accused Kalsi saidAfter her marriage the accused could not see her with someone else so he planned to break her marriage he saidTo defame the woman Bansal made a fake Instagram ID and using victims old pictures and downloading some nude pictures online he made a fake video and sent them to her husband and others the DCP saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever