Cyber Police Jammu succeeded in apprehending one cyber criminal involved in online blackmailing, harassment and sharing of personal and private content of a lady complainant over social media platform.According to SP Cyber Naresh Singh, based on a complaint filed by a lady complainant (name/address hidden) at Cyber Police Station Jammu regarding online blackmailing, harassment and sharing of her personal and private content by one of her ex-student cum online friend namely Jarajappu Anantha Jayadev of Andhra Pradesh, a case under FIR Number 13/2021 under Sections 67 and 67-A Information Technology Act 2000 was registered at Cyber Police Station Jammu and the investigation started.“During the course of investigation and as per the statement of the complainant, it was revealed that the complainant was a scholar from renowned University and was engaged in delivering online lectures to many students and also used to deliver guest lecturers in different colleges”, SP stated.He added that a person namely Jarajappu Anantha Jayadev, son of Tirumaleshwar Rao Jarajapu of Allipuram, Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh contacted complainant on Facebook and requested her for some comprehensive classes on payment basis. The complainant got lured of his talks and accepted his offer. After some time, the accused started threatening and blackmailing her with the threats that he will make viral/transmit her all the recorded private videos and chats on social media. However, the accused transmitted and published the adult screenshots and chats through the Instagram ID of the complainant, password of which he had taken from her very cleverly, SP added.“During technical analysis of Instagram profile of the accused and IPs used, it was established that the profile of complainant was opened from a location in Andhra Pradesh/Vishakhapatnam, where the above-named accused was belonging to”, SP informed.SP added that a team of Cyber Police Station Jammu headed by Inspector Rakesh Kumar, Investigating Officer and accompanied by Inspector Gagandeep Singh and some other police personnel of Cyber Police Station under the supervision of DySP Priyanka Kumari was deputed to Telangana/Andhra Pradesh, which ultimately resulted into the arrest of the accused. Police team also seized mobile handset containing obscene contents from the accused, SP said.
