The 42-year-old truck driver was arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura by Faridabad police on Monday in Aligarh as he allegedly blackmailed and harassed several women by morphing their photographs into sexual content and threatening them to leak and circulate them online.
The identified truck driver was arrested who is accused is a native resident of Mathura and identified by the name Ganesh Singh. It took 4 months for the police to reach and hold him captive.
A complaint was filed on the 6th of May by a woman when she received a morphed photograph of herself from an unknown number on her WhatsApp who allegedly threatened her that the photo would be leaked if she blocked him. The case was registered under sections of the Information Technology Act.Â
As per Faridabad police spokesperson’s statement , he would edit and morph the photographs taken from their respective facebook and other social medias and then threaten them to perform elicit sexual favours. Many women gave in out of fear. As per police, many women even did not report the abuse as they were scared to their guts. Several victims later stated that they felt suicidal at times out of the abuse they were facing and surviving.
Around a total of 500 obscene scenes and videos were found from the mobile phone of the accused. He said that he found an abandoned SIM card at a dhaba in Rajasthan and then later went on to use it to harass and exploit women around social media. The police raided areas in Jaipur, Ajmer, Dausa, Alwar and places like Bharatpur after tracking him down but he managed to sneak out and escape every time. It was high time when he finally got arrested on Monday after four total months. He will be soon presented in the court before the judge
Cases like these are making headlines far more frequently than they should. Blackmailing and threatening women online has become offensively easy as a way out is tough for women from these situations as they fear wrath from their family, friends and society. The accused has stated that his doings were just for his entertainment. He also said that it was fun to watch these women beg for mercy and later give in to the threats.
