`Pervert' projects wife as call girl, post her nude pictures on WhatsApp in Tirupati

Tirupati:A man projected his wife as a call girl and posted her intimate pictures on WhatsApp and other social networking sites at Tirupati in Chittoor district of the state.

Tirupati Urban police said the victim staged a protest at the police station seeking action against her husband. Police have launched a hunt for the man, who is on the run.

The victim said her husband works as a junior assistant at a college in Tirupati. Their marriage was solemnized in August 2020. "From the third day of our marriage, he started physically assaulting me," she said.

She said she suffered a miscarriage due to physical harassment by her husband. She noted that her husband has been harassing her for dowry.

Fed up with alleged harassment, she left her husband's home and stayed with her parents in Bengaluru. However, her husband accused her of decamping with gold jewelry worth Rs 10 lakh and Rs10 lakh cash.

"His harassment didn't stop with just that. About three days ago, I was shocked to learn through my classmates that my husband had posted my nude pictures on my college WhatsApp group and projected me as a call girl with a price tag of Rs 3,000 per hour," she said.

When the victim lodged a complaint, police tried to pacify her by offering to counsel her husband. Apparently disappointed with the police's attitude, the woman approached the Superintendent of Police (Tirupati Urban) A Ramesh Reddy.

Based on the complaint, Ramesh Reddy asked the police to register a case against her husband under different sections including dowry harassment and domestic violence. He also directed police to book him under the IT Act.