TRS corporator's son arrested again for cyber stalking

The son of a TRS corporator was arrested for allegedly seeking "cybersex" from a 25-year-old woman and for threatening to upload her morphed photos on porn sites, police said.
The accused, Abhishek Goud (20), son of Malakajgiri TRS corporator Jagdish Goud, was earlier arrested in September on the charge of harassing women and stalking them on social media.
He was arrested yesterday by Rachakonda Police from Malkajigiri area here, they said.
In a related development, a group of locals today held demonstration at Malkajigiri cross roads demanding immediate resignation of the corporator and invoking of the stringent Preventive Detention Act against his son.

The locals, including women, raised slogans and held placards against Abhishek Goud and burnt his effigy.
The woman, in her complaint told police that on October 17, she accepted a friend request from a female profile 'Vara Darling' on her social networking site profile.

Subsequently she started getting vulgar messages and videos, and also received a morphed photograph of a nude girl with her face, police said.
When she reprimanded the sender she was threatened that, if she does not oblige and respond to the messages her morphed photographs will be sent to all her contacts and will be posted on porn websites, police said.

Following the complaint, a case was booked under IPC sections 354 D (stalking), 507 (criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication) and under other relevant sections and IT Act.
During the course of investigation, police identified the accused as Abhishek Goud and during the interrogation he admitted to have created fake ID on social networking site with user name 'Vara Darling' by uploading profile picture of an unknown girl and started sending friend request to female IDs on the networking site, police said.
"He used to ask the victims to do cybersex by inviting them to come on video chat. Whoever refused he created their nude morphed pictures and threatened them by sending the same to their social messaging application," police said.

Goud was out on bail in connection with the September case, police said.