Security guard had 13,500 pictures of women on phone

THE GUARD SHARED MORPHED PORNOGRAPHIC PICTURES OF THE WOMEN ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND FORCED THEM TO STRIP

- Vinay Dalvi

MUMBAI: The 25-year-old security guard arrested earlier this month from Ballari district in Karnataka for stalking multiple women operated over 100 email accounts and 11 Instagram accounts in the name of women who had rejected his advances, Dahisar police have found.

The guard, Shubham Kumar Manoj Prasad Singh, shared morphed pornographic pictures of the women on social media and email and coerced them to strip during video calls and send him their nude photographs.

He also had over 13,500 photographs of women stored on his mobile phone and police are trying to contact the women whom he had allegedly harassed and seeking more details about his activities from social media platforms, police officers aware of the matter told Hindustan Times.

Singh, a native of Kausuli village in Bhagalpur district of Bihar, had completed a diploma in computers from Delhi and was trained in graphic design, officers from Dahisar police station said.

He wanted to work in the information technology sector in Bengaluru, but as he was unable to secure a job, he joined an industrial estate in Sandur in Ballari, working as a security guard, they added.

Singh was arrested on June 6 and is under judicial custody.