The content of the chats was disturbing, even for seasoned police officers. Believing that their Facebook friend was a girl, several teenaged school girls chatted with ‘her’ (him) on personal and intimate matters.

Police officers investigating the sensational case of Abdul Majid, accused of attempting to extort money from schoolgirls after befriending them online, were shocked to see the intimate photos of schoolgirls he had secured.

There were nearly 200 nude and semi-nude photos of girls with him. One of the victims was 13 years old, an eighth standard student, the victim didn’t suspect anything when a Facebook ‘friend’ request came from another ‘girl’ created with a fictitious name by Majid. Landing in the trap laid out by the accused, the girl shared her personal photos.

‘Embarrassing for parents too’

“Even the content of the chat was too personal. The girls blindly believed that the person at the other end was a girl. It was embarrassing for the parents of the girls also,” the investigators told The Hindu . It was more than traumatising for the schoolgirls who casually chatted and shared their photos.

They were shaken on receiving threat calls for money from Majid who said he would post their personal photos online.

So disturbed were the girls that some of them said that they felt like gunning down the accused.

“Even Majid’s elder brother told us that he didn’t mind if the severest punishment was given to him,” observed a police officer.

One of the teenaged girls, who received text messages from Majid requesting to share photos, appealed to students to verify credentials of persons before becoming friends online.

Appeal by police

Cyberabad police appealed to people to contact them on mobile phone nos. 94906 17437 or 94910 30428 if they found any students were being victimised in this fashion.