A group of women students at Vignana Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, filed a complaint with the Ghatkesar Police on Wednesday, 4 January, alleging that their WhatsApp display pictures were misused by a person, who is yet to be identified.
What happened? Alleging that they have been receiving phone calls from unknown numbers for the past five days, the first-year B.Tech students assembled on the college premises on Wednesday night and complained to the administration that they were recently added to a WhatsApp group without their consent, a student at the institute told The Quint.
The admin of the WhatsApp group allegedly morphed the display picture of one of the students and sent it back to her, threatening her that he would make it public, the source added.