BHUBANESWAR: A student of Odisha University of Technology and Research was arrested for allegedly uploading objectionable photographs and videos of a woman on Instagram, on Saturday.
The accused Karuna Kamal Biswal of Balugaon is pursuing MTech (second year) at the university. Both the accused and victim are in their mid-20s.
Police said Biswal was in a relationship with the woman who is a homeopathy doctor by profession, and had taken her obscene photographs and videos.
The couple parted ways a few months back after which Biswal started blackmailing the woman by threatening to share her photographs and videos on social media. When she refused to reconcile, the accused opened a fake Instagram account in her name and uploaded her photos and videos recently.
When the woman came to know about it on Wednesday, she lodged a complaint with Kharavela Nagar police. Biswal’s mobile phone has also been seized by police.