When a smartphone with internet empowers anyone to telecast anything they wish to, live, on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, it is quite obvious that people will misuse it.

Exactly what a 23-year-old fellow from Kerala did by live-streaming having sex with a woman he was having an affair with. After the woman filed a complaint against Linu, the man in question, was arrested by the police yesterday.

His Facebook live-telecast, meanwhile, went viral on various social media platforms and instant messaging applications like WhatsApp.

Linu. Photo courtesy: Mathrubhummi news Linu. Photo courtesy: Mathrubhummi news

Reports said that the couple live-streamed having sex knowingly, but it seems the woman was unaware of what Linu was up to. The woman filed a case against Linu -- an employee at a hotel in Nedumkandam in Kerala's Idukki -- saying she was "raped" by him on the promise of marriage.

THE TWISTED TALE

The woman who filed the complained against Linu is married to another man and has a kid with him but does not live with her husband.

A textile showroom employee in Idukki's Adimali, she was having an affair with Linu for over six months now. Linu used to frequent her house and used to stay over too, promising the woman that he'd marry her.

A Mathrubhumi report said that the clip that went viral on social media was shot by Linu with the woman's consent. Now that the woman has accused Linu of raping her, this can be considered the first case of "revenge porn" from Kerala.

CONSENSUAL OR NOT?

Adimali Circle Inspector K Sabu told The News Minute that Linu accepted that he live-streamed the intimate moments to get "likes" on Facebook and that the woman knew Linu was recording the entire episode.

The physical interactions, however, seemed consensual, the police said. Hence, the rape charge by the woman may not hold up.

REVENGE PORN?

Police seized Linu's phone and found more private videos of him with the woman. Police told The News Minute, "They had shot such videos earlier also, so there should be a reason why he did a live. We will question him more after getting him in police custody."

The CI feels Linu would have telecast his private moments with the woman live to take revenge or out of anger.