Man held in Rajasthan for creating pretend Instagram ID of girlfriend to blackmail her
By PTI
JAIPUR: A person was arrested for allegedly making a pretend Instagram account of his girlfriend and blackmailing her to extort cash in Rajasthan’s Ajmer district, police mentioned on Monday.
The lady initially mentioned the matter with the boyfriend that she was being blackmailed by somebody by sharing her footage and demanding cash, they mentioned.
The boyfriend instructed that she ought to pay the cash to the blackmailer and never go to the police to get out of the difficulty.
He additionally informed her that police can not do something as a result of the Instagram is being operated from the US, they added.
The lady paid Rs 5,000 to her boyfriend believing that he would pay the quantity to the blackmailer via cellular pockets, police mentioned, including the person saved the cash with him and gave her a pretend receipt.
When she was requested to pay Rs 26,000 extra, she determined to strategy the police and lodged a criticism at Adarsh Nagar police station on May 12, they mentioned.
Based on technical investigation, police tracked the blackmailer who turned out to be the girl’s boyfriend, Superintendent of Police Vikas Sharma mentioned.
The man, recognized as Maqbool, was arrested on Sunday and produced earlier than an area court docket which despatched him to judicial custody, police mentioned.
Maqbool stole the sufferer’s reminiscence card and used her footage within the pretend Instagram account.
He then contacted the lady and threatened to share her objectionable footage together with her household and mates.
“During the course of the investigation, we suspected Maqbool because he had a lot of information about the girl and the photos, but the girl said she has full confidence in him,” circle officer, Ajmer South, Sunil Sihag mentioned.
Maqbool was married on May 10.
He used the cellphone of a painter, working in his house, to get OTP to create the pretend Instagram ID, police mentioned.
