A 19-year-old college student from Faridabad died by suicide after he was allegedly blackmailed with AI-generated obscene pictures and videos of himself and his sisters, police said. The blackmailing began roughly two weeks ago, when two unidentified persons allegedly hacked into his phone and contacted him through the messaging platform WhatsApp. The victijm, Rahul Bharti, a second-year BCom student at DAV College, had been distressed over the morphed content and the blackmailing, his father Manoj Bharti said, according to NDTV.

Officials at the NIT Police Station said Rahul had been receiving repeated threats from the two suspects, who demanded Rs 20,000 for not circulating the obscene images and videos, Hindustan Times reported. On Saturday, around 7 pm, Rahul consumed poison inside hi

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