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Hyderabad youth arrested for honey trapping and blackmailing using fake social media accounts
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News18•19-10-2026, 18:29
Hyderabad youth arrested for honey trapping and blackmailing using fake social media accounts
- •The accused, Kondabhattula Pawan Kumar, created 13 fake Instagram and 14 Facebook accounts using women's pictures.
- •He posed as a woman named Chandana and others to befriend people, obtain private content, and then blackmail them.
- •Police revealed that the accused extorted around 1.8 million rupees, with total fraud amounts reaching over 2.516 million rupees.
- •His victims included a police officer, doctors, businessmen, and individuals from other states and foreign countries.
- •Authorities seized three mobile phones, a laptop, and a pen drive from the accused during the arrest.
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The accused, Kondabhattula Pawan Kumar, created 13 fake Instagram accounts and 14 Facebook accounts using names and pictures of women, notably using pictures of a woman from Kolkata presented as 'Chandana'.
The police uncovered an extortion amount of approximately 1.8 million rupees, which brought the total amount across all linked fraud and extortion cases to over 2.516 million rupees.
The police registered a case against the accused under sections 308(7) and 351(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) along with sections 66C, 66D, 66E, and 67A of the Information Technology (IT) Act.
