COIMBATORE: Coimbatore city cybercrime police on Friday arrested a 32-year-old man from Madurai for threatening to circulate photos of a woman on social media.The arrested man has been identified as M Vinoth, 32, of Madurai. According to police, a 41-year-old woman from Vilankurichi lodged a complaint with the cybercrime police, stating that an unidentified person threatened to circulate her private photographs on social media.The woman, who lives with her husband and two daughters in a rented house in Vilankurichi, received WhatsApp messages from an unknown number on Oct 8. The sender used her photograph as the display picture and asked her to contact an Instagram account named ‘Sridhivya.26’.When she refused, the person sent her photographs and threatened to upload them on Instagram. The sender later threatened to edit her photos and upload them on Instagram. He sent morphed pictures to her WhatsApp number.The woman said the threats had caused her considerable mental distress and fear. Following her complaint on Oct 10, police registered a case. Investigations revealed that Vinoth was the culprit and he downloaded her photos from Instagram and threatened her.Vinoth was remanded in judicial custody.
