Youth arrested for harassing woman by fake Facebook posts

Cyberabad Police have arrested a youth from Bangalore on the charge of creating fake profile of a city-based woman on Facebook and threatening her for rejecting his love proposal.

N Santosh Kumar alias Kiran, working in a private company in Bangalore and a native of Pavagada in Tumkur district of Karnataka, was apprehended by Cyber Crime Police wing of Cyberabad Police yesterday, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crimes) Janaki Sharmila said today.

A complaint was lodged with the Cyber Crime Police on August 23 stating that the accused Santosh Kumar, besides creating the fake profile of the woman and uploading her photographs on Facebook, was chatting in her name with others. He also made calls and sent messages to the victim and her family members threatening them with dire consequences for rejecting his love proposal, the police officer said.

 Santosh and the victim had met in Bangalore while pursuing a computer course and had proposed to her later, the police officer said. The accused harassed the woman in the name of love. He even threatened her and her family members with dire consequences saying they should not look for other matches for her, the Additional DCP said quoting the complaint lodged by the victim's brother.