Kerala Cyber Police arrested an accused for uploading morphed images

The Kerala State Cyber Crime Police arrested a 35-year-old man on charges of uploading morphed images of female anchors of a leading Malayalam television channel on the internet.  The accused was identified as Devadas of Ambikasadanam, Poothol, Thrissur.  The court remanded him to judicial custody as the crime committed was a non-bailable offense. He was arrested following a complaint forwarded by the channel authorities to  Director General Police Jacob Punnoose, who handed over the case to the Cyber Crime Police.

The Cyber Crime Police team led by Inspector Joshi Mathew and Sub  Inspector C. G. Suji Kumar successfully traced the accused, despite him having used a fake e-mail ID to upload the pictures.

 

According to Cyber Crime Police,  the accused, who was an diehard fan of Bollywood actress Karisma Kapoor, committed the crime due to the grudge he bore against the channel authorities for portraying the actress in a vulgar manner in one of their programmes.

He had even forwarded a complaint to the channel authorities. Devadas, who is a bachelor, was provoked at their indifferent response and as an act of revenge he uploaded morphed photographs of the channel’s female anchors on the internet.

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Cyber Crime : Man held in Pandalam Kerala for Cyber Stalking using Mobile Phone

Kerala Cyber Police caught a youth named Saleesh Kumar, aged 27 from Pandalam in Pathanamthitta District for cyber stalking through mobile phone.  He was regularly made unsolicited mobile phone calls and sending malicious SMS messages to several women within the state and outside for the last one year.  Pandalam Police arrested the accused with the help of Cyber Crime Police team headed by Mr. Sukumara Pillai, DySP & SHO, Cyber Police Station, Kerala and Mr. Joshy Mathew, Inspector of Police, Mr. C.G. Sujikumar, SI of Police and Mrs. S.S. Poornima, Civil Police Officer of Cyber Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram.

According to Cyber Police the accused had made over 7,000 unsolicited calls and sent over 10,000 SMS messages with malicious contents to the mobile phones of about 200 women over the last few months.  He obtained the mobile phone numbers of women by random number dialing method. Several women had fallen into the trap set by the accused, who could speak fluent English

The accused Saleesh was making the calls and sending SMS messages using a mobile phone connection taken in the name of another woman..  He was confident that he would never be caught as he was using a SIM card that was obtained from one of his victim girl but the original subscriber of the SIM card is another girl who handed over the SIM card to one of her friend several months back.

Cyber Police traced the accused by using scientific investigation methods including social networking site profiling, mobile log and tower location analysis, email id details, telephone directory, electoral voters list etc.  Several petitions were registered against cyber stalking in several Police Stations in Kerala.

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Kerala Cyber Police traced a Missing Person

The Kerala State Cyber Police have successfully tracked a missing person solely with the help of Internet. A 33-year-old man, who was missing for the past 12 years, has been traced by Kerala Cyber Police after tracking his activities on an Internet social networking Site. This was the first case in the country where a missing person was tracked down with the help of Internet.

The Cyber Police, Thiruvananthapuram, which tracked down Jimmy Koruth, a then final-year degree student from Pandalam who went missing since November 1998. A man missing case was registered at the Pandalam Police Station. In January 2010, one of Jimmy’s relatives came across an Orkut profile named after Jimmy. The information was passed on to the Pandalam police immediately, which, in turn, handed over the case to the Cyber Cell.

The Cyber Cell contacted Google International in the US for tracking Jimmy’s email details and found out that the profile was created at a cyber cafe in Chennai in October 2008. The police obtained Jimmy’s address from the identity proof he had given in the cyber cafe. His father V.V.Koruth identified him from the images recorded by the security camera at the cafe.

Cyber crimes have been steadily on the rise in Kerala and the numbers may cross 50,000 this year (2010) said by Mr. Jacob Punnoose IPS, Kerala DGP recently.