Gurgaon: 23-year-old IT engineer working in Delhi was arrested for allegedly uploading private pictures of a 20-year-old B.Tech student on mobile photo sharing website — Instagram.

According to reports, the photos were reportedly taken when the accused and the girl were in a relationship. Police said the suspect is an engineer working with a company in Delhi while the girl is a B.Tech first-year student at a private engineering college in Gurgaon. They both were in a relationship but broke up recently.

On Friday, the girl complained to the police that the suspect uploaded her personal pictures on Instagram on April 24. The intimate pictures were clicked when both of them were friends, she said in the complaint.  The girl also alleged that the accused used to beat and intimidate her when they were in a relationship.

Based on the complaint, the police arrested him and seized the mobile phone which the accused allegedly used to upload the pictures. A police official said that the pictures have been removed now from the profile on Instagram.

The Police also booked the case under sections 323 (voluntary hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code and sections 66E, (violation of privacy) 67 (publishing material with obscene content), and 67A (publishing material containing sexually explicit content) of the Information Technology (IT) Act.

“The accused was arrested from Delhi and produced at a local court that granted him bail on Friday,” said Vikram Nehra, station house officer, Bhondsi police station.