Hyderabad: Engineering student held for sending obscene pictures to a woman

A 21-year-old engineering student was arrested on Saturday for allegedly harassing a woman by sending her abusive text messages and obscene pictures on her mobile.

Cyber Crime Police of Cyberabad arrested Syed Ismail Zabih following a complaint from the woman of Miyapur wherein she stated that she received abusive text messages and obscene pictures between December 7 and December 27 last year through mobile messaging application "WhatsApp" on her cell phone. Though the victim did not respond to the messages, the accused continued harassing her.

Based on her complaint, a case was registered and investigation revealed that Zabih, a final year engineering student from Nizamabad, found the mobile number of the complainant written beside her name on the seat of a bus, said DCP (Crimes) B Naveen Kumar.

"He tried to initiate conversation with her by sending messages to her through WhatsApp. When she did not respond, he further harassed her by sending more abusive text messages and obscene images to her mobile phone. Recently, the accused moved to Mehdipatnam here for his course's dissertation work and he was nabbed from his hostel by Cyber Crime Police," the police officer said. Two mobile phones were seized from him.