24-year-old held for blackmailing student by threatening to leak AI-generated fake nudes

The accused allegedly utilized an AI-enabled app to manipulate the victim’s illustration picture, said police, which helium shared with her during the chats. Detailed investigation of Instagram chats and the metadata provided by Meta, officials underlined, led to the recognition of a telephone fig linked to his fake account.

Surveillance revealed the fig was progressive successful Harsh Vihar successful North East Delhi and further probe uncovered that the accused had shared a QR codification with the unfortunate for payment. The accused had listed a chow mein vendor adjacent his residence arsenic an intermediary for payments. He had asked his unfortunate to allegedly transportation wealth via a QR codification linked to the vendor, who past handed implicit the currency to him.

“The accused maintained changeless speech with the unfortunate connected chats, demanding money. In the chats, the unfortunate was seen pleading with the fishy to amusement mercy and not stock her objectionable photos connected societal media. However, the fishy persisted, relentlessly pressuring her to conscionable his demands, threatening to marque her fake nudes and videos viral connected societal media platforms if she refused,” said DCP South West Surendra Choudhary.

At 1 point, the accused threatened to nonstop the photos to the student’s parents, which pushed her to a breaking point, compelling her to confide successful her parents, said police. She yet lodged a ailment connected January 6, stating she had been harassed and blackmailed
by idiosyncratic posing arsenic a pistillate connected Instagram. A lawsuit was registered nether BNS sections 78 (stalking) and 319(2) (cheating by personation).

During questioning, Nikhil allegedly admitted that the fake Instagram relationship had initially been a means of leisure, but implicit time, helium turned it into a instrumentality for extortion. Using AI, helium created the manipulated images and shared them with his unfortunate utilizing Instagram’s one-time-view feature, preventing her from redeeming the evidence. Even aft the unfortunate had blocked his account, the accused continued his harassment by creating caller profiles.

Police recovered the smartphone utilized to perpetrate the crime. An probe is besides ongoing to find if the accused targeted different victims too.