Hyderabad: Cyber stalker Abdul Majid, under arrest for exploiting around hundred girls online, was using Wi-Fi facility of a business establishment near his house without the knowledge of its owner, to lure his victim, police said Saturday.
Majid lost interest in studies after he started trapping girls on the social network, and there were several backlogs in his exam record. He told police that he tried to befriend some girls on Facebook from his original account a year and a half ago, but nobody accepted his friend request.
Then he started creating fake accounts of girls to make matters easy for him.
Police said his father ran a small betel shop near his house in Bholanagar. Next to that was another business establishment. Majid used to sit near his father’s shop and access the Wi-Fi set up by the company for its internal use. He somehow managed to get the password and kept on accessing it via his smartphone.
Majid, now in his third year B Tech Computer Science, failed in most of his semester exams in the second year and the current year. Since he belonged to a poor family, his education expenses were covered under a state scheme.
He had few friends in his locality and he generally kept himself aloof from others. He also maintained utmost secrecy about what he was doing. “We are yet to ascertain if he had shared the nude photographs of his victims with anyone. Usually, he does not brag about what he does on Facebook, unlike other youths”, said an official investigating the case.
Majid however used to save all the naked photographs he managed to get from his victims. “We are verifying if he had uploaded the photos on any website,” police said.
Meanwhile, more victims of Majid contacted cyber crime police after his arrest news came out. He has been sent to judicial custody.
