Delhi cops arrest man who harassed more than 100 minor girls on WhatsApp

Delhi Police arrested a 29-year-old who harassed more than 50 minor girls between ages 9 and 16 on social media by sending them morphed, obscene photos of themselves and abusive messages.

He was turning 30. He told police he was frustrated because all his friends were married with kids while he was still a bachelor. At a little over 50kg and 5 feet 4 inches, he considered himself underweight and short, which is why, he thought, women turned down his requests for friendship or marriage.

Rajesh Gambhir ran a mobile phone store through which he acquired SIM cards on fake IDs. He then used these mobile numbers to send minors, aged 9-16, morphed images of themselves.(Representative Photo)

In a desperate attempt to get women to notice him, he started sending morphed pictures to girls, aged between nine and 16 years, through Facebook messenger and WhatsApp.

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Rajesh Gambhir (29), a mobile shopkeeper, was arrested on Saturday for harassing and blackmailing around 100 girls by allegedly sending them their morphed vulgar photos, abusive messages and dirty jokes. He had downloaded a “cut and paste” application in his mobile phone and used it for morphing photographs of girls, which he randomly picked and saved from Facebook profiles.

Gambhir had a collection of 52 morphed photos of various girls on his three mobile phones. He threatened girls to accept his friendship or he would circulate their morphed photos on the internet and social networking sites.

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“I did that only for sexual pleasure by having dirty chats with girls. I never met the girl or disclosed my original identity to them. It was harmless flirting and I never spent more than a week with one girl,” police quoted Gambhir as saying.

A resident of Delhi’s Kishan Ganj, Gambhir used prepaid SIM cards which he procured through documents of customers who visited his mobile shop for obtaining new SIM cards. Gambhir used illegally procured the SIM cards to avoid police attention.

Vijay Singh, deputy commissioner of police (northwest), said Gambhir’s arrest came following investigation into a complaint filed on Thursday by the mother of a Class 9 student of a reputed north Delhi school.

Gambhir was caught from his home after details were collected about him through technical surveillance. Three mobile phones and a SIM card were seized from his home.

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