The Virar police have arrested two college-going teenagers who allegedly shared an obscene video of a minor girl on WhatsApp. The matter came to light on July 8, when the victim’s father approached the police. “The girl’s father claimed that an obscene video of his 16-year-old daughter had been circulating on WhatsApp. Considering the seriousness of the situation we quickly registered an FIR,” said a police officer.

With the help of technical investigations, the police found that the video circulating on WhatsApp had originated from a Snapchat account hudson01199. The police however couldn’t identify the suspect and hence they wrote to MBVV Cyber Cell for assistance. “We wrote to the cyber cell that we needed to identify the suspect. The cyber cell then wrote a letter to the Snapchat team in the USA. With the information provided by Snapchat in America we identified the suspect in Nallasopara,” the police said.