In a case of misuse of social networking sites, the cyber crime cell officials have arrested Kunal Khambayata, a civil engineering student of Ganpat University in Mehsana, Ahemdabad. The student was threatening a girl by posting obscene photographs of her on Facebook, through her dummy account.

Kunal was arrested from his college, after the police learnt that he was using internet to blackmail and harass the girl, which he used to access from his residence in Rajkot. According to Police inspector PC Solanki, the accused had come home for vacations, from where he made the girl’s fake profile and used to post her obscene photographs.

According to sources, Kunal used to copy her photographs from her profile who was his senior in college and used to threaten her to come and meet him or would post the photographs on the dummy profile. He continued to send her text messages and also used to post modified obscene pictures of the girl.

The police arrested Kunal from his college after he returned from vacation and will be kept in remand till Thursday. The internet connection was said to be in Kunal’s father’s name.