Cyber sexual predator arrested in Karnataka after two-year manhunt

Mumbai Police arrested a 25-year-old man, wanted for cyber sexual offences, after a manhunt of two years from Karnataka. The accused, Shubham Kumar Manoj Prasad Singh, was tracked down in Sandur town of Ballari district, where he had been working as a security guard in a private company.

The arrest follows a complaint filed by a female student in Mumbai, which led to an investigation by cyber crime officials. Shubham had allegedly created multiple fake social media accounts in the names of women and uploaded explicit content to defame and harass them. A case was filed against him in Mumbai, and the police had been tracking him from two years. Police say he had created over 10 fake profiles and more than 90 email IDs to carry out the crimes.

Investigators found that he used video calls to target women, later editing and circulating the footage indecently on social media platforms. On his mobile phone, police recovered a disturbing collection of images of over 13,500 women, allegedly obtained without consent.

His digital trail was uncovered using technical inputs from Google, leading to his arrest by a team of Mumbai Police in Sandur. The accused, who holds a diploma from Delhi, had been operating under the radar for over two years while continuing to engage in online sexual harassment and impersonation.

Further investigation is underway to identify additional victims and determine the full extent of the offences.