Hyderabad student coaxed girls to share nude pics

Hyderabad: For 18 months, a 21-year-old engineering student from upscale Banjara Hills befriended 200 schoolgirls on Facebook and coaxed or blackmailed nearly half of them to share their nude photographs, before he was finally arrested on Friday.

Abdul Majid, 21, had opened eight different FB accounts with pseudo names of women and befriended school-going girls from Hyderabad.

“From these accounts, he used to search for girls studying in reputed or international schools and send them friend requests,” said CV Anand, Cyberabad police commissioner.

After striking up a rapport with the girls who accepted his request (presuming the account belonged to a girl) Majid started talking sex.

While a few girls willingly shared their nude photographs with their new FB ‘friend’ — whom they knew as Vedika, Tanvi or Shriya — others were blackmailed by Majid. He told them that he was a police officer’s daughter and threatened to email the chats to their parents or put it up on Facebook.

“When some victims refused to share, the accused intimidated them. Frightened by this, many shared their private photos. From various telephone numbers the accused used to make calls to the victims and asked them to keep on sending more photographs. If they refused to do so, Majid used to threaten to post their earlier photos on porn sites,” CV Anand told reporters. In one particular case, Majid, son of a pan-shop owner, extorted Rs 86,000 from a victim.

Police suspect hundreds of girls might have become victims because after checking the mobile phone of the accused they found hundreds of such photographs.

Majid’s ‘dirty picture’ game, which started 18 months ago, finally came to an end after a victim’s mother approached the Cyberabad police. An intermediate student from a city college did not shy away from speaking out and her mother contacted the police after she was threatened.

Source: PTI

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