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Morphing of girl’s FB pic: Man gets 3-yr jail
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Trichy:25.04.2019
A mahila court in Trichy on Wednesday sentenced a 22-year-old youth to three years imprisonment for threatening a minor girl by posting her morphed photo on Facebook. It also handed out another threeyear jail term for intimidation and assault with intent to outrage her modesty.
The court also ordered the convict, S Ajithkumar, to pay a fine of ₹5,000 failing which he should undergo six months of additional jail term.
Special public prosecutor R Ventatesan said Ajithkumar, a construction worker, had proposed to the 17-year-old girl who was his neighbour.
Though the girl rejected his proposal, Ajithkumar continued to pursue her.
Since the girl was unrelenting, he downloaded her picture from her WhatsApp profile and morphed it with his picture, and posted the morphed photograph on the social media site.
The girl’s elder brother, who confronted Ajithkumar for denigrating his sister, was abused and threatened of dire
consequences. The convict also refused to remove the picture from the site.
Based on a complaint lodged by the girl, the Golden Rock all-woman police took up the investigation and arrested Ajithkumar, on September 26 last year. He was later released on bail pending trial.
Morphing of girl’s FB pic: Man gets 3-yr jail
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Trichy:25.04.2019
A mahila court in Trichy on Wednesday sentenced a 22-year-old youth to three years imprisonment for threatening a minor girl by posting her morphed photo on Facebook. It also handed out another threeyear jail term for intimidation and assault with intent to outrage her modesty.
The court also ordered the convict, S Ajithkumar, to pay a fine of ₹5,000 failing which he should undergo six months of additional jail term.
Special public prosecutor R Ventatesan said Ajithkumar, a construction worker, had proposed to the 17-year-old girl who was his neighbour.
Though the girl rejected his proposal, Ajithkumar continued to pursue her.
Since the girl was unrelenting, he downloaded her picture from her WhatsApp profile and morphed it with his picture, and posted the morphed photograph on the social media site.
The girl’s elder brother, who confronted Ajithkumar for denigrating his sister, was abused and threatened of dire
consequences. The convict also refused to remove the picture from the site.
Based on a complaint lodged by the girl, the Golden Rock all-woman police took up the investigation and arrested Ajithkumar, on September 26 last year. He was later released on bail pending trial.
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