20-year-old put morphed nude images of minors on Instagram; arrested

Mumbai police’s cyber unit arrested a 20-year-old from Mahua in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat on Monday for alleged child pornography, stalking and blackmailing of girls between 10 to 15 years of age.

Cyber police found nude photographs of more than 800 girls from the mobile phone of Alfaz Jamani, who allegedly managed to get them from the girls after blackmailing them.

According to cyber police officials, Jamani dropped out of school after class 12 and started working at an onion dehydration plant. Dr Rashmi Karandikar, deputy commissioner of police (cyber), said, “On September 4, we received complaints from seven parents whose children are in the age group of 10 to 15 years. The parents complained that someone had uploaded morphed nude images on Instagram, a photo sharing app, of their children, following which an FIR was registered.”