An Ahmedabad social media influencer’s choice to reject a friendship proposal allegedly triggered a chilling months-long cyber harassment marketing campaign by which a Delhi man created and circulated greater than 100 AI-generated nude images and movies of the girl and her mom, police stated on Thursday.
The accused, recognized as 27-year-old Sumit Nemchand Sharma from North East Delhi, was arrested by the Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Department after investigators tracked him via technical surveillance and human intelligence inputs.
Police stated Sharma allegedly created a number of faux Instagram accounts and YouTube channels utilizing the influencer’s id earlier than flooding social media platforms with morphed express content material generated via AI instruments freely obtainable on-line.
In accordance with investigators, the harassment continued between December 2025 and April 2026.
Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Department ACP Hardik Mankadiya stated the girl approached police after the faux profiles and express content material started spreading on-line.
“We acquired a criticism from a social media influencer that an unknown individual had created faux Instagram accounts in her identify and uploaded over 100 AI-generated nude images and movies of her and her mom on social media platforms and YouTube channels,” he stated.
Police stated the posts prompted deep psychological trauma and public humiliation for each the girl and her mom.
FROM RELIGIOUS CHATS TO ONLINE STALKING
Investigators stated Sharma, who’s allegedly related to ISKCON’s Hare Krishna sect and uploads non secular discourse movies on-line, first contacted the influencer via Instagram.
In accordance with police, the conversations initially revolved round faith and non secular discussions.
However issues took a darker flip after Sharma allegedly requested the influencer for friendship and he or she refused.
Police stated the accused then started obsessively monitoring the girl on-line and created a number of faux social media identities utilizing her images.
“He used the influencer’s images as profile footage for faux accounts and likewise opened YouTube channels utilizing her id,” ACP Mankadiya stated.
AI TOOLS USED TO CREATE EXPLICIT CONTENT
Through the investigation, police discovered that Sharma allegedly downloaded images of the influencer and her mom from Instagram earlier than utilizing AI-powered “take away garments” instruments to generate faux nude photos and movies.
Police stated the accused searched on-line for AI instruments able to digitally altering images and uploaded the photographs on numerous web sites to create morphed express content material.
“He looked for AI Take away Garments instruments on Google and used completely different web sites to create morphed nude photos and movies,” the officer stated.
The AI-generated content material was then allegedly uploaded throughout faux Instagram accounts, YouTube channels and different social media platforms together with obscene posts.
MORE THAN 10 FAKE SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS
Police stated forensic examination of the accused’s cell phone revealed that Sharma had allegedly created round 10 faux accounts throughout X, Fb, Instagram and YouTube within the influencer’s identify.
Investigators imagine the accounts had been operated over a number of months to repeatedly add express AI-generated content material concentrating on each the girl and her mom.
Officers stated the accused himself recurrently uploaded non secular movies on social media, at the same time as he allegedly ran the faux accounts in parallel.
A case has been registered towards Sharma underneath Sections 78(2) and 356(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Sections 66(C) and 67 of the Data Know-how Act.
Additional investigation is underway.
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