Casting director held for posting private pics of actress

    Mumbai, Mar 15 (PTI) A 28-year-old casting director
was arrested on Sunday from a Mumbai suburb for allegedly
uploading private photographs of a 27-year-old budding actor
with her male friend on social media, police said.
    The accused has been identified as Mahavir Tak alias
Nakul.
    According to a police official, the victim's boyfriend
is also a casting director, whom Tak had given Rs 3 lakh
towards casting work for a serial a few months ago.
    However, as the latter did not start work on the
project, Tak demanded his money back and took away the mobile
phone of the another casting director.
    In December last year, one of the friends of the
actress told her that he had seen her private photographs with
her boyfriend on social media, the official said.
    "We have arrested the accused on the charges of
molestation and under the sections of Information Technology
Act. He was produced before court on Sunday which remanded him
in police custody," an Oshiwara police station officer said.
    According to police, Tak had created fake accounts on
various social media platforms. PTI ZA
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