Overview

• The Powai police registered an FIR under the Information Technology Act after a complaint that a fake account impersonated the victim’s mother.
• The 23-year-old student in Australia accepted a February friend request she believed was from her mother, according to the complaint.
• On February 5, the account holder allegedly sent morphed obscene images and threatened to circulate them among relatives.
• The student alerted her mother in Mumbai, who approached police with details of the messages and the impersonation.
• Sub-inspector Sonam Deshmukh said the accused remains unidentified as officers request technical details from Snapchat to aid the search.