IIT student uploads nude photographs of woman on internet

An IIT student allegedly uploaded nude photographs of a woman on internet, police said today.

18-year-old Surajit Kumar Jain, a second year Electronics and Communications student from Bilaspur, uploaded nude pictures of a woman, who is a teacher in the same district on internet last month, police said.

Following a complaint by the woman, Chhattisgarh Police tracked down the Internet Protocol (IP) address which revealed that the photographs were uploaded from IIT Kharagpur campus by Jain, they said.

Police visited the IIT Kharagpur campus yesterday in search of the accused, who was reported to be absent since two months by IIT Director, Tapan Ghoshal, they added.