MP man gets 5-yr RI for defaming teenager
The sentencing was pronounced by the additional district judge-cum-special Pocso court, Jagatsinghpur.
The convict, Aman Razak, a resident of Narsinghpur district in Madhya Pradesh, was also fined Rs 10,000 by judge Gargi Patnaik. Failure to pay the fine would result in an additional six-month imprisonment. The court has also directed the Odisha State Legal Services Authority to provide Rs 1.5 lakh compensation to the victim.
According to the prosecution, the then 17-year-old victim, a native of Jagatsinghpur, was preparing for her medical entrance exams when she befriended Razak on Instagram in 2021. Thereafter, the two shared passwords of each other's Instagram profiles and Razak later accessed her account and changed the password. Subsequently, he convinced the girl to share with him her intimate photographs and videos, which he later posted on her Instagram account.
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Despite the victim reporting the matter to the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal and getting her account deactivated, Razak continued to harass her by sending her obscene content on WhatsApp. The victim's father then filed an FIR at the Cuttack cybercrime police station on Feb 18, 2022 and Razak was arrested later that year on Dec 22.
Public prosecutor Shiba Prasad Majhi said the court relied on the testimonies of nine witnesses, including the victim, before convicting Razak under various sections of the Information Technology Act, 2000, IPC and Pocso Act, 2012.
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