RAMANATHAPURAM
The district police have arrested an unemployed MBA graduate, a tech savvy, on charges of hacking the android mobile phone of a woman, his relative, and blackmailing her, threatening to post her pictures, videos and chatting with her husband in the internet and social media.
Acting on a complaint lodged by the married woman, Devipattinam police arrested D. Dinesh Kumar, 24, of Tamarai Oorani near Devipattinam under Sections 294 (b) (using obscene words), 354D (following a woman) and 506(ii) (criminal intimidation) of Indian Penal Code, Section 4 of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Women Harassment Act and Section 67 of the Information Technology Act. He was produced before a magistrate court on Wednesday and remanded in judicial custody.
The police said the accused, while helping the woman download WhatsApp in her mobile phone, discretely downloaded ‘Track view’ app, available in the Play Store in her mobile, and started hacking her phone. The woman exchanged pictures and videos with her husband, who was working abroad, and the accused kept track of all her mobile transactions, using his laptop, the police said.
The woman was not aware of this and when the accused called her and gave details of her conversations and the videos she had shared with her husband, she panicked. Later, he blackmailed her, threatening to leak the pictures in the internet if she did not get intimate with him. After she reported the matter to her sister, the two trapped the accused and handed him over to the police.
Superintendent of Police Omprakash Meena said interrogation revealed that the accused was employed in a software company in Chennai and removed from service after he played mischief with a woman colleague. He was also sacked from an engineering college here, he said.
Examination of his two laptops showed that he had downloaded various apps to hack mobile phones of women, the SP said.
