Kendrapara: The police on Thursday arrested three persons, including two brothers from West Bengal’s Nadia district for their alleged involvement in posting nude photographs of a minor girl in social media.
All the three arrested were produced before the local court which remanded them into jail custody after rejecting their bail pleas
The arrested persons have been identified as Milan and his brother Mulayam of Nadia district in West Bengal and Debadutta Behera, of Salipur under Salipur police limit in Cuttack district.
Milan and Mulayam used to eke out their living by working as mason. Milan recently came in contact with the victim girl while he was working the construction work at the victim’s house.
Later, Milan and the minor victim girl fell in love with each other and Milan managed to capture the nude photos of the victim girl during video chat through WhatsApp.
Milan’s brother Mulayam was engaged in mason work at the house of one Sandeep Nayak who is the neighbour of the victim.
As Sandeep Nayak has a long standing land dispute with the victim’s family he and his wife, Smita Nayak, managed to collect the nude photos of the minor victim.
Later, they made the nude photos of the victim viral on social media platforms like Instagram and WhatsApp group.
One Debadutta Behera, of Salipur, too made the video viral in a whatsapp group with defamatory comments.
The victim girl later lodged an FIR at Kendrapara Sadar police station against her neighbours and the duo mason brothers.
Acting on the FIR, Kendrapara Sadar police registered a case under Section 294,506,34 IPC, 67(B)IT Act and 12 POCSO Act and arrested the three accused Kendrapara SP Madkar Sandeep Sampat had directed the SDPO to personally look into the case and arrest all the accused.
Police said the haunt is on to nab the couple the neighbour of the minor victim girl managed to flee after the incident. (UNI)