A youth named Gautam Pandit was arrested by the cyber crime cell of Odisha police on 12 Septermber, 2013 for charges under Section 66A, 66C, and 67 of the IT Act as well as for charges including inter alia forgery, criminal intimidation under the IPC, following a complaint made by a girl's family.

Gautam had allegedly created a fake facebook ID of the girl, who was also his ex-girlfriend, and uploaded objectionable pictures by morphing them.