VADODARA: Cybercrime police station of the Anand district police held a man for attempting to blackmail women by threatening to circulate their intimate photographs.
Sleuths of the cybercrime police station had got information that a man had been sending morphed objectionable pictures to women from his Instagram and Snapchat accounts.
He used to blackmail the women by threatening to make these photographs viral if they did not pay him up.
An offence was registered against the man and a search was started to locate him.
The man was traced by the police and was nabbed near the old bus stand in Anand.
He had come there to collect blackmailing money.
The man was identified as Jagdish Sindha (29), a resident of Dhuvaran in Borsad taluka.
According to the police, his modus operandi involved befriending girls or women and then threatening to send objectionable pictures of the girls viral.
He used to seek money from the girls for not making the pictures viral on social media.
Anand man blackmails girls online, arrested
