Orkut profile lands youth in jail

Thu, Nov 6 02:05 AM

A 20-year-old man, the son of a technocraft company owner at Goregaon (East), was arrested by the Cyber Crime Cell of the Mumbai Crime Branch on Tuesday, for allegedly posting an obscene profile of a woman excise officer on social networking portal Orkut. Covit Patil, who works for his father's company that manufactures agricultural tools, was remanded to police custody till November 10 on Tuesday.

He has been charged for outraging the modesty of a woman and under relevant section of the Information Technology (IT) Act. Inspector Mukund Pawar of the Cyber Crime Cell said on Monday the excise officer had approached the Dindoshi police station and lodged a complaint that she had been getting crank calls after her mobile number and her obscene profile was posted on Orkut.

The police referred her to the Cyber Crime Cell. On Monday, a complaint was registered.

"After tracing the IP address of the officer, they tracked down Covit. During interrogation Covit confessed that he had posted the profile," said Pawar.