The cybercrime police in Coimbatore on Friday arrested a man on charge of harassing a woman and stalking her on social media. The accused also created an Instagram profile and uploaded private photos of the woman, said the police.

The arrested has been identified as M. Vinoth (32) of Thuvariman in Madurai district.

According to the police, a 41-year-old woman from Vilankurichi in Coimbatore lodged a complaint stating that a person contacted her on WhatsApp on October 10 and the account had her image as the diplay picture. The stranger demanded her to chat on Instagram. As the woman refused, the stranger sent her old private images on WhatsApp and threatened her of uploading them on Instagram. When the woman declined to reply, the person threatened her of circulating those images.

The police registered a case under different Sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Information Technology Act and the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Woman Act based on the woman’s complaint. The police launched an investigation and zeroed in on Vinoth as the accused. He was arrested.