Man held for morphing Web images.

A Rohini-based trader has been arrested for allegedly downloading photographs of two city-based airhostesses from a social networking site and e-mailing their morphed obscene versions to the duo’s friends and colleagues. The Delhi Police’s Special Cell arrested the suspect, Jitender Singh Rana, 30, from his house in Rohini’s Sector-3 on Wednesday, the police said on Friday.

According to police, the suspect came to know the victims through a common friend but fell out after a fight earlier this year. He allegedly tried to resolve the issue over the months but did not succeed. Thereafter, he committed this crime to teach them a lesson. In their early 20s, the women are employees of Jet Airways. He downloaded photos of these women from their accounts in the social networking site Facebook and morphed the images. He then e-mailed the obscene images to the victims’ friends and colleagues on their Facebook and Orkut accounts.

Rana, according to the complaint, also posted the morphed images on a blog. He used two e-mail accounts in Gmail to circulate these images. The victims approached the police after their friends told them that they had received e-mails containing their pictures. The Special Cell registered a case under the Information Technology (IT) Act-67 based on the complaint. Rana, a graduate in hotel management, is married and has a child.