Barasat, May 22: A driver hired to ferry a police officer?s daughter to a school where she taught, drugged her, took pictures of her in the nude on a cellphone and sent them to her prospective groom?s family because she had spurned his proposal.

Nurul Islam (32), the driver, and his alleged associate Riyajul Haque, who owns a car dealership, were arrested yesterday in Madhyamgram, North 24-Parganas after police tracked down the phone from which the photographs had been MMSed.

The 27-year-old woman?s wedding, scheduled next month, has been called off by the groom?s family.

?We arrested Nurul and Riyajul on the basis of a complaint lodged by the woman. The cellphone has been seized,? said Praveen Kumar, the North 24-Parganas superintendent of police.

Piyali Ghosh (name changed), the daughter of a district intelligence branch inspector posted in South 24-Parganas, teaches in an English-medium school at Madhyamgram and had been travelling to and from it in the hired car since February.

?The car was hired from an agency belonging to Bablu Ghosh, who engaged Nurul. He developed a crush for Piyali and wanted to marry her. He was refused when he proposed marriage to her in early April. But, after that Piyali continued to go to school in cars driven by Nurul,? said a Barasat police station officer. Piyali had reported Nurul?s proposal to her father, who warned him against making any further move and told him that her marriage had been fixed.

An investigating officer said: ?Nurul planned his revenge and roped in Riyajul, the co-owner of a two-wheeler and car shop in Madhyamgram.?

On May 13, Nurul went to pick up Piyali for school along with Riyajul. Piyali was drugged, but she cannot recall how.

The duo took an unconscious Piyali to a house in Madhyamgram and even ?applied make-up and lipstick to deck her up like a fashion model?.

When she regained consciousness about an hour later, she was fully clothed, but a little dizzy. ?Nurul told her that she had suddenly lost consciousness. They also told her that they sprinkled water on her face to help her back to sense,? an officer said.

Neither Piyali nor her family suspected any foul play until her future father-in-law, a retired government employee, received the pictures on his mobile phone.