When Jamila Khan (name changed), a minor, checked her Orkut account last year, she was shocked to see that she had received a scrap (message) from another account which looked like hers and had her photograph in it.

When she clicked on the profile, she saw that there were obscene messages with her photographs posted in the profile. Khan immediately told her family and filed a complaint at the Mahim police station. After investigation, the police on Wednesday arrested Mazhar Shaikh (name changed), who is also not 18 years old yet. Shaikh and Khan used to attend the same private coaching class in Mahim.

"The suspect is a student of a private college in Bandra and had taken pictures of the girl on his mobile, which he had put up on the profile he created," said inspector Vinay Kulkarni.  "He has been arrested for attempting to insult the modesty of a woman (section 509 of  the Indian Penal Code) and section 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000."Since Shaikh is a minor, he will be produced before the juvenile court on Thursday, the inspector said.

Two of Shaikh's accomplices are likely to be arrested soon. In her complaint to the police, Khan said she checked her Orkut profile between May and September 2008 and was shocked to see her photographs and indecent messages in another profile. She made an application to the Mahim police in December 2008, said Kulkarni.

An investigation revealed that the suspect had created a fake email ID in the name of the victim. The police, with the help of the cyber crime cell, traced the IP address of the computer from which the profile was created. "The IP address was traced to a house in Mahim. It didn't take long to identify the accused," an officer from the Mahim police station said. Kulkarni said that since the Orkut server is located in Sweden, it is difficult for the police to block the profile.