Fake profile of woman puts student behind the bars

29/12/2017

PUNE: The Bharati Vidyapeeth police arrested a 25-year-old engineering student for creating a fake profile of a female student on a social networking site. The two students were in a relationship and had recently gone their separate ways.

The 22-year-old complainant lodged a case with the police after she started receiving obscene calls from strangers. Senior police inspector Kamlakar Takawale of Bharati Vidyapeeth police station said, "We have arrested the student, who is in the last year of mechanical engineering. He hails from Ambajogai in Beed district," he said.

The complainant stays in the area located behind the Bharati Vidyapeeth campus. She is currently in the last year of a professional course. The woman and the accused were earlier in a relationship. A few months ago, the accused allegedly created a page on a social networking website, using the complainant's name and uploaded several obscene photographs on it.

According to the police, when the woman confronted the accused he allegedly issued threats of dire consequences. Cops have arrested the engineering student for outraging the modesty of the complainant.z