Man held for 'molesting' woman on pretext of giving her job

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: The city police on Friday arrested a man for allegedly luring a woman through social media and molesting her by promising a job in different sectors.

The accused, who is identified as Prasad, also collected her private pictures and threatened to leak them on the internet, if she complained. According to police, the accused initially sent the request to the woman from a fake social media account titled 'Mounica.'

He later offered her a job and told her that his manager wanted certain physical qualities for the job. After getting the images, the accused started blackmailing and forcing her to meet his physical needs. Police found that he maintained multiple fake Instagram accounts and targeted the women who were searching for jobs.

On January 26, the woman reportedly filed a complaint based on which the police caught him at a paying guest accommodation in the city. Prasad hails from Andhra Pradesh and he has been working as a techie at a private firm in Bengaluru, police said, adding that the case is under further investigation.

Meanwhile, Bengaluru police urged the residents to beware of fake social media accounts and asked them not to accept requests from unknown people. They also asked people not to send any private images to strangers.