Daijiworld Media Network – Kerala (EP)

Kottayam, Jun 1: Police have arrested a man for allegedly sexually exploiting over 50 women on social media and blackmailing them with their morphed obscene pictures.

Pradeep Kumar (25), a resident of Ettumanoor, Areeparambu was arrested here on Friday May 31 based on a complaint filed by a woman.

According to the police, Pradeep used to obtain the women's phone numbers, get to know their personal issues and then communicate with their husbands after creating a fake Facebook accounts posing as a female.

He would then send screenshots of the chats their husbands had with the fake female account and forward them to their wives, convincing them that their husbands were having extramarital relationships. This would create a discord between the targeted couples.

Thereafter, Pradeep would develop friendship with the wives and invite them for video chats. He started blackmailing and sexually exploiting them with their morphed indecent pictures.

He used to reportedly chat with the women in a code language to make sure that the victims themselves were chatting with him on social media platorms, and would use abusive language if they did not use the code language. He used to threaten the women that he would send the obscene pictures to their husbands if they did not follow his instructions. Several such pictures have been recovered from his laptop by the police.