Facebook

Faisal Qureshi

Raj Malhotra

friends

police officer

Skype

Rathod

Crime Branch on Saturday arrested a 24-year-old Muslim man for creating fakeaccount and blackmailing a 22-year-old girl. The man who was posing as a Hindu youth allegedly threatened to post obscene clippings of the girl on the social networking and pornographic sites after she discovered his true identity and broke off their relationship. He also allegedly threatened the girl’s family members. According to Crime Branch officials, the accusedbefriended the Vastrapur-resident on Facebook by posing as“The friendship grew and the two began dating. However, the girl, who is a graduate and belongs to a well-todo family, noticed that her ‘Hindu’ boyfriend greeted everyone with an ‘As-salamu alaykum’ (which is a Muslim way of greeting). When she questioned him about this, he told her that his Muslimliked it when he greeted them like that. However, she grew suspicious when she noticed that all the friends on Qureshi’s Facebook friend-list were Muslims. This time when she confronted him, he accepted that he was a Muslim and aclass 12 fail,”said.Shocked at the deception, the girl broke off the relationship with Qureshi and cut-off all contact with him. However, Qureshi wasn’t ready to accept her decision. He allegedly started calling her and issuing threats. “He threatened to throw acid on her face and kill her if she dared to complain to the cops about him. He also called the girl’s mother and threatened to post objectionable clippings of the girl, which he had filmed without her consent, on Facebook and pornographic sites and besmirch her. Tired of his threats, the family approached the cyber cell of the Crime Branch,” cops said.Crime Branch investigated Qureshi’s Facebook account and based on his communication patterns, found that he was a resident of Parikshitlalnagar in Behrampura. “Qureshi works as a helper and he had made fake accounts on Facebook andwhich he used to befriend Hindu girls. We have checked his account and there are several Hindu girls who communicate with his ‘fake identity’,” said Crime Branch Cyber Cell PSI BH Korat.Meanwhile, Crime Branch PI HAtold Mirror, “We have discovered that the man used to regularly pose as a Hindu man and befriend Hindu girls. We are trying to ascertain what his motives were. We are also investigating as to where he must have hidden the video clipping that he threatened the girl with. We will also probe whether he has ever threatened any other girl in a similar manner.”