Pune: A 34-year-old woman from Ghorpadi has filed a complaint against a kitchen fitting worker for creating her fake online profile and posting lewd messages after a dispute over payment. The woman, who works with a private company, said she hired the services of the worker and a colleague for kitchen trolley fitting works in her flat in Hinjewadi. The woman’s complaint says that the worker morphed her photos to create a fake profile in her name on a social media platform and posted vulgar content on it on Aug 8.
The Hinjewadi police on Saturday registered a case for offences under sections 74 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 78 (stalking) and 79 (word, gesture or act intended to insult modesty of woman) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Information Technology Act. “We have transferred the case to the Mundhwa police for further investigation,” an officer from the Hinjewadi police told TOI on Sunday. The officer added, “The woman had earlier paid Rs42,000 for the work the duo completed.
The remaining work was done by the worker’s colleague, but he was insisting that the woman pay him the pending amount of Rs6,000 for this work instead of the colleague. She, however, wanted to pay the person who had done the work.” He said, “The worker did not like this, and shared a profile picture of the woman with a real estate agent in Hinjewadi, accompanied by lewd messages about her.
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