Lucknow, 11 May

(HS): A shocking incident came to light on Monday in Lucknow, the capital of

Uttar Pradesh. A Muslim youth, by changing his name and religion, lured Hindu

girls through social media. He threatened to make their obscene videos and

photos viral and pressured them to convert. The Sairapur police station

registered a case and arrested the accused.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, North,

Twinkle Jain, stated that the accused, Shoaib Akhtar, a resident of Wazirganj,

Gonda, runs a salon (barber shop) on Raitha Road in Lucknow's Chhathamil

Market. He lives in a rented house in the Sahabhagi Shikshan Sansthan. He created

a fake account on the social media platform Instagram using the name

Saurabh Singh. He first befriended Hindu girls and then, after

trapping them in his love trap, took obscene photos and videos of them. Using

these photos and videos, he blackmailed them into converting to Islam and other

things. A girl exposed his actions and filed a case against him at the Sairapur

police station on May 10. The girl alleged that Shoaib befriended her by

changing his name to Saurabh Singh and threatening to make some of her private

photos viral.

The Additional

Deputy Commissioner of Police stated that based on the victim's complaint, the

police have registered a case and arrested the accused. Evidence is being

collected against him.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi