Unknown person booked by private firm employee for misusing his dead wife photo with morphed to upload on dating app

Yogesh K Porwar & Siddarath Sethia

A 45-year-private firm employee has filed a complaint with the central division cyber crime police that cyber frauds are misusing the photograph of his dead wife and morphed to upload on dating app.

Based on the complaint filed by Srinivas K,resident of SR Nagar,the police on Wednesday registered a case against unknown person charging him under section 66c (identity theft) and 67 (publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form) for further investigation.

In his complaint,the complainant said that his wife had died due to kidney related ailments in January 2023.

Since then he was using her phone and FB account .
On Tuesday he logged on to his wife account to check for the second hand car sale details when an unidentified man send a link to his whatsapp account .

Upon clicking the link he found the morphed picture of his wife along with many other women and uploaded on dating app and sharing with others .

The victim had also shared the contact number of the accused who is misusing the photographs of his wife .

Police suspect that there is a possibility that the accused was misusing many inactive social media accounts for his benefits and to operate immoral activities.