An employee of Visva-Bharati University was arrested from West Bengal's Birbhum district on Thursday for allegedly running a fake social media profile using morphed photographs of an NRI woman based in Canada, the police said.
"Sujoy Munshi, 46, a computer assistant at Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, was arrested by the Cyber cell of Kolkata Police on Thursday for allegedly creating a fake Facebook account using the picture of a Bengali woman based in Canada," said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Vishal Gurg.
The officer said the victim's mother, who stays in Kolkata, lodged a complaint about the fake account last September.
"After assembling all the leads, a special team of Kolkata Police visited the university on Thursday and arrested Munshi. Three laptops, hard drives, mobile phone and several documents were seized from his house in Birbhum," the officer said.
"According to the complainant, there are no connections between the victim woman and the accused. We are investigating the motive of the crime," he added.
--IANS
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