Cuttack, Sept. 3: Police have arrested a 36-year-old married man from Bangalore for allegedly morphing a girl’s photo and uploading some objectionable pictures on a social networking site “for fun”.

The accused, Panchu Pan, was today produced in a local court after a special team of the cyber police brought him on a transit remand to Cuttack following his arrest on August 30.

Pan had allegedly uploaded the pictures of the girl, who is studying engineering at a private college in the city. During investigation, Pan had confessed to have committed the offence just for fun, said the police.

Both the accused and the girl were unknown to each other. However, Pan somehow downloaded the girl’s photographs from her Facebook account.

Later, he created an account in the name of another girl, morphed her pictures and posted them online.

A cyber police official said that during investigation it was found that the accused had used his mobile phone to commit the crime.

“The accused had created a fake account and uploaded some objectionable pictures of the girl,” said B.K. Sharma, additional director-general of police (crime branch).

Initially, the girl was not aware that her morphed pictures were uploaded on the Internet. Some of her friends had informed her about the incident, and later, she lodged a complaint with the cyber police on November 18 last year.

Based on the complaint, a case under sections 292, 465, 469, 500 of the Informational Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008, was registered and a special team was constituted in this regard.

Another cyber police official said the accused was married and working with a private company in Bangalore.

Earlier, another youth Rajaram Biswal, 28, of Bhubaneswar was also arrested for posting personal pictures of a girl on the social networking site on August 13.

Biswal is a bachelor of computer application from Utkal University. The police said Biswal, a resident of Kapila Prasad in the Airfield police limits, had befriended the complainant and was later interested in marrying her.

A cyber cell officer had said: “But, the girl was reluctant to marry him as she considered him only as her friend. The accused was putting pressure on her to marry him and had also threatened her of dire consequences if she did not.”

Later, Biswal opened a Facebook account in the girl’s name and started posting her personal photographs on the site.

The police said the accused had opened the account in December last year.

In yet another similar incident in July, Rourkela police had arrested an IT professional from Bhubaneswar for creating a fake and malicious Facebook account and posting a woman’s photographs with sexually explicit content on it.