
Hyderabad: A youth from Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh was arrested on Sunday for creating a fake Facebook account of a female student and posting her morphed pictures, the police said.
The youth, allegedly created a Facebook account of the girl and uploaded her morphed images along with obscene as well as false information, besides her contact number, the police said.
The victim lodged a complaint with police after which Chirala rural police arrested Santosh today. Further investigations are on.
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09:46 PM, May 19, 2013

Indore: A software engineer here was arrested on Sunday for allegedly uploading an obscene video of a nursing student on the Internet. Kapil Gadhwal (24), a resident of Mandsaur, is employed at a call centre in the city, police said. Gadhwal befriended the 21-year-old nursing student who studied at a private college, and about ten days ago he allegedly shot an obscene video of her which he uploaded on the...

08:05 PM, May 19, 2013

Tuticorin: A 33-year old man was arrested on Saturday for alleged indecent and obscene acts near the government nursing college hostel. The accused had scaled the compound wall of the hostel and stripped himself before dancing, shocking the students, police said. He was arrested on a complaint by the Resident Doctor of the hostel, police said adding the accused along with two others had been indulging in similar obscene acts...

08:33 PM, May 18, 2013

New Delhi: The Delhi government's 181 helpline for women in distress, which was launched in the wake of the December 16 gangrape, has received over two lakh calls in the last four-and-half months. Officials said most of the calls received by the round-the-clock help line were related to stalking, eve-teasing, obscene calls and facing sexual abuse and domestic harassment. The helpline was launched on December 31, 2012 to help women...

02:35 AM, May 17, 2013

Bhubaneswar: A teacher was arrested on Tuesday in Odisha's Sambalpur district for molesting an eight-year-old-girl in the school classroom, police said. The 28-year-old offender, an art and crafts teacher in a private school at the district headquarters town of Sambalpur, about 320 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, allegedly gave the students some drawing assignments and started watching an obscene video on his laptop. After finishing her drawing, the girl went...

04:40 AM, Apr 24, 2013

An SRPF personnel was arrested for allegedly making obscene gestures at girls residing in a hostel in Dhule district, police said on Monday. Bhooshan Phulpagare (29), a personnel with the State Reserve Police Force (SRPF), made some vulgar gestures at girls staying in a government tribal hostel at Devpur locality in Dhule city on Friday. ...

01:35 PM, Mar 25, 2013

A person was nabbed on Friday for allegedly uploading morphed obscene photos and videos of a young woman on several websites including Facebook after she refused his marriage proposal, police said. ...

06:30 AM, Mar 16, 2013

Days after a Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader courted controversy by throwing wads of currency notes towards skimpily-clad girls dancing at its foundation day event, a freshers' welcome function organised by the party's student wing saw a dancer giving an obscene performance on stage. ...

10:40 PM, Jan 22, 2013

Public protests over Punjabi rapper Honey Singh for his lewd lyrics lead to the cancellation of his New Year eve show and an FIR. ...

10:43 PM, Jan 01, 2013

New Delhi: Sharing porn or obscene videos online or through multimedia messaging services (MMS) may soon attract a prison term up to seven years and a maximum fine of Rs 5, 00,000, the government proposed Thursday. These stringent punishments are part of the amendments proposed in the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986 (IRWA) that were approved by the union cabinet, ahead of the legislation being sent to parliament...

07:03 PM, Oct 11, 2012

Nayagarh (Odisha): A government school teacher was on Sunday arrested on charge of having unnatural sex and showing obscene visuals to students from internet sites in Odisha's Nayagarh district, official sources said. Chandra Sekhar Choudhury, computer teacher of Navodaya School here, was arrested from Berhampur in Ganjam district on the basis of an FIR lodged by school principal B Hussain Appa on Saturday, Nayagarh sub-collector Manas Ranjan Debta said. The...

05:59 PM, Sep 23, 2012

Nagpur: An Indian Revenue Services (IRS) officer has been booked for allegedly making an obscene video of his wife and using it to blackmail her for dowry, police said on Thursday. Bangalore resident Nishwant Davrajan Kullulathil, an IRS officer, was booked on Wednesday along with his mother and sister under relevant sections of Domestic Violence, Sexual Offence and Dowry Prohibition Act, Gittikhadan police said. Nishwant's wife, an assistant income tax...

11:05 PM, Sep 20, 2012

New Delhi: The arrest of cartoonist and India Against Corruption activist Aseem Trivedi on charges of sedition has sparked outrage. Aseem has been sent to police custody for a week for allegedly posting 'ugly and obscene' content on his web portal. Aseem's family and other anti-corruption activists are standing by him claiming there was nothing unpatriotic about his cartoons."Why should the government arrest our son, a cartoonist when there are...

07:40 AM, Sep 10, 2012

New Delhi: Justice Markandey Katju, Press Council of India chairman, on Sunday defended Aseem Trivedi, who was arrested for allegedly posting seditious content on his web portal, saying the cartoonist has done nothing illegal. "My opinion is that the cartoonist did nothing illegal. In a democracy many things are said, some truthful and others false," Katju said in a statement. Trivedi was arrested yesterday and produced in a Mumbai court...

07:30 AM, Sep 10, 2012

Mumbai: Yet another cartoonist has become the victim of the ongoing policing by political parties. Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi was on Sunday arrested for allegedly posting "ugly and obscene" content on his web portal. Trivedi was arrested in Mumbai and produced in a Bandra court later in the day following which he was sent to police custody till September 16. He was charged with sedition under Section 124 A of the...

01:36 PM, Sep 09, 2012

Hyderabad: A 22-year-old B Tech student from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi was arrested in Hyderabad by the cyber crime wing of the CID for allegedly posting obscene photographs of a girl from IIT-Kanpur on a public blog. The cyber police seized a mobile phone and a computer from the accused, Surender. The superintendent of police, cyber crime, U Rammohan Rao said they arrested Surender by tracking the Internet...

09:28 AM, Jul 08, 2012

New Delhi: Kerala is the most literate state in the country but when it comes to posting obscene articles or photos on the Internet, people from God's own country seem to be also on top, if one goes by government data. 27 per cent (136) of the 496 cases of obscene publication registered in the country last year were from the southern state, topping the list in this regard. Around...

03:17 PM, Jul 03, 2012

New York: An Indian diplomat's daughter, who was jailed for a day on suspicion of sending obscene emails to her teacher, has filed a lawsuit against the city of New York and her school authorities seeking USD 1.5 million in damages for her wrongful imprisonment and suspension from school. 18-year-old Krittika Biswas, the daughter of Vice-Consul in the Consulate General of India in New York Debashish Biswas, was detained and...

12:19 PM, May 08, 2012

Hyderabad: City boy Vishal Madipalli, who recently returned home after completing his masters degree in Science from the UK, was arrested by the Cyber Crime police in connection with uploading obscene videos of his girl friend on social networking site Facebook. He was produced before the court and sent to remand. According to police, the accused had an affair with a girl and he took her facebook account password. Later,...

11:26 PM, Apr 19, 2012

Mumbai: While most turn to ice cream and other benign edibles to grieve the loss of a relationship, this 22-year-old college goer decided to create a fake Facebook profile for his female friend, and upload obscene photographs and updates on it. Badlapur police arrested the Third Year BCom student under sections of the Information Technology Act on Wednesday. Suraj Ravi Bhat, a student of Pathak High School and Junior College,...

01:09 PM, Apr 12, 2012