Overview

• Prabhat Chaudhary, 28, was arrested on August 3 by the Delhi Police Cyber Cell and charged under Section 67A of the IT Act for allegedly sextorting his sister.
• Investigators say he sent intimate images and videos through Instagram’s “view once” feature to coerce her into meeting his personal demands.
• Police traced his digital footprints after an initial raid at his Bulandshahr address failed and identified multiple social media accounts used to circulate the content.
• Officers recovered a mobile phone linked to the offence and secured Chaudhary’s confession during sustained interrogation.
• Authorities are verifying his claims of financial distress and reviewing connections to other online exploitation cases as part of an intensified cybercrime campaign.