SRINAGAR : Taking cognizance of teenagers’ intimated pictures and pictures clad in western clothes circulated on social sites, police arrested a youth in Baramulla district of North Kashmir.
Police said that a youth was arrested for allegedly circulating morphed photographs of his ex-girlfriend on social media and labeling her as an informer of security forces.
Police said the photographs in which the girl is holding an alcohol bottle and pistol have been found to be morphed adding while others are of intimate nature which the girl might have shared with the youth while she was in a relationship with him.
Police handout adds that the a girl from Old Town Baramulla lodged a written complaint in Police Station Baramulla stating there in that one of her friends with whom she had shared her pictures has misused them and circulated those on social media after they fell apart on some issue.
According to police, the girl alleged that some of the pictures have been photoshopped and morphed to put her life in danger by falsely portraying her as informer of security forces.
It adds, based on her complaint Case FIR no 13/2017 under sections of 354-D,506 RPC was registered in and investigation was taken up.
Police handout mentions that during the course of investigation it surfaced that one Abrar Ahmad Mantoo of Hatmura, Mattan area of Anantnag had uploaded these photographs on Facebook and were subsequently shared by some people on Facebook and Whatsapp.
Police adds that the accused has been arrested and those people involved in circulating these photographs on social media have also been identified and will be dealt as per law.
