Ward boy held for blackmailing nurse

Ward boy held for blackmailing nurse

Sushil.Rao@timesgroup.com

10.06.2020

Hyderabad: A youth from Warangal was arrested for allegedly stalking a nurse, blackmailing her and demanding that she send her nude photograph to him.

Nalgonda police arrested the accused, a ward boy who created a fake Facebook account on her name and befriended her friends too. The nurse, a native of Khammam district and was providing home care to a patient in Nalgonda.

“The victim was on the verge of committing suicide because of the harassment. Before she could take the extreme step, she sent a WhatsApp message to SHE Teams, who acted quickly on her complaint. As she gave the mobile number of her harasser, he was traced in Nalgonda,” Nalgonda superintendent of police (SP) A V Ranganath said on Tuesday.

The accused hails from Chennaraopeta Warangal was working as a ward boy for a home care giving organisation at Addagutta in Secunderabad and came in contact with nurses. He would take their numbers and also of their friends to contact them.

In the case of the girl, he first sent her a WhatsApp message saying that she should call back and there would be a surprise in store for her. The nurse ignored the message as it was from an unknown person. After repeated requests, he himself made a WhatsApp video call.

According to the SP, the man showed himself nude in the video call even as the shocked girl disconnected the call. He saved a video and threatened her that he would circulate the video of she looking at him nude.

Police, said there were several other cases against as the accused as he had resorted to the same modus operandi with about 30 other girls too.

However, many did not come forward to lodge a complaint. Those instances would also be probed and he would be prosecuted, the SP added