Graduate threatens girl with morphed pictures, held in Visakhapatnam
The Hindu
Police arrested 22-yr-old Diwakar for morphing girl's pics with nude ones, demanding money & threatening to upload them on social media. Victim approached cybercrime police & on tip-off, Diwakar was arrested. CP A Ravi Shankar instructed police to act on the case.
The city police arrested a 22-year old graduate for allegedly morphing a girl’s pictures with nude ones and further demanded her money threatening to upload the pics in the social media.
The arrested was identified as Kalaga Diwakar of Dronamraju Nagar, Pendurthi. Diwakar has completed B.Sc Agriculture.
Inspector of cybercrime police station, R Someswara Rao said that an unmarried girl from the city has accepted a friend request from an unknown account in the Instagram. The intruder has took the victim girl’s pic from her account, morphed them depicting her in nude pics using Artificial Intelligence (A.I) applications. He then had sent the morphed pictures to the girl and demanded money threatening to upload them in social media. The victim girl immediately approached the cybercrime police.
Following instructions from Commissioner of Police, A Ravi Shankar, cybercrime police acting on a tipp-off arrested the accused Diwakar.
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