Andhra Pradesh government employee held for harassing woman colleagues

Hyderabad: An employee of Andhra Pradesh Foods, a state government enterprise, was arrested on Saturday for allegedly harassing two of his woman colleagues by creating their fake profiles on Facebook and uploading their pictures along with some obscene images procured from internet.

The victims filed a complaint with police after coming to know that someone created their fake profiles on the social networking site, which contained their pictures along with obscene pictures of other women, Cyberabad police said in a press release.

A case was registered by the Cyber Crime Police under relevant sections of IPC and IT Act and investigation revealed that the accused, identified as Kamalla Ravi Kumar, had allegedly used scanned pictures of the victims, police said. The case is still under investigation, police added.