The Cyber Crime Wing of the Tamil Nadu police have arrested a woman who posted morphed photographs of her former colleague on social media platforms with an intention to cause metal trauma and tarnish her reputation.
Acting on a complaint lodged by the victim, an employee of a city-based company, that her photographs were morphed and posted in social media, investigators tracked digital footprints and zeroed-in on the suspect who turned out to be the complainant’s former colleague. The victim alleged the motive was to harass and defame her.
In a press release, the police said, in the first week of January, several employees of the victim’s company received follow request in Instagram from some unknown profile names and those IDs were then used “to circulate objectionable and defamatory content, including morphed images of the victim.”
Investigation revealed the accused had deliberately misused social media platforms to threaten and publicly humiliate the victim as an act of revenge. It was found that the accused was a former employee of the same organisation where the victim holds a senior position. She had resigned from her position in October 2025.
She downloaded the photos of the victim from the official website of the company and morphed them using various Artificial Intelligence applications.
The accused was produced in a city court and remanded in judicial custody, the release said.
The investigation was directly supervised by the Director General of Police, CCW, Sandeep Mittal and Superintendent of Police Adarsh Pachera.
Published – February 04, 2026 07:45 pm IST
