(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Police in Kerala have detained a man suspected to have morphed pictures of wedding guests and making porn videos.
The suspect's computer contained thousands of pictures taken at weddings by photographers of a studio in the municipal town of Vadakara in Kozhikode district.
Police said they received some ten complaints from women whom the suspect identified as Bibeesh allegedly blackmailed using the photos.
Local media reports said the scandal came to light after a man alerted his friend about her morphed image being circulated on social media.
'We have arrested him, and he is being questioned, Vadakara deputy superintendent of police T P Premraj said.
The police had earlier arrested the owners of the studio where Bibeesh worked as an editor.
He was on the run since then. Local reports said he had confessed to morphing five images. The police picked him up from his hideout in Idukki, some 300km away from Vadakara.
Scores of the women had earlier this week staged a march in the town demanding his arrest.
They alleged ruling politicians were trying to save him as he had close links with them.
They were planning to stage a protest outside the local police station yesterday, which they cancelled following his detention.
The police are verifying if he had stored morphed photographs anywhere else and if he had shared any of them on social media.
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