Private Group Chat Leaked Online — Harassment, Rape Threats, and What the Law Says

A close-knit group of young women from Jaipur became part of an online social circle that grew through mutual connections on Instagram. A man using the handle @captain_skywing_99 had carefully built a fake persona — presenting himself as a commercial airline pilot employed with a major Gulf carrier. He shared convincing cockpit videos, posted flight rosters, and even mentioned a fiancée, whom he identified as a fellow pilot named "Nadia Qureshi." Over several weeks, he introduced two additional accounts, both posing as women pilots.

Trusting these accounts to be genuine women, the original group added them to a private, women-only WhatsApp group. That decision had consequences none of them anticipated. Once removed from the group following a dispute, the man turned hostile. He began leaking private screenshots and personal messages from the women-only chat into a separate group, body-shaming the women, rating their appearances, and orchestrating conflict between the two groups while pretending to be a neutral observer. All three "pilot" accounts were, in fact, the same person — later identified as a travel agent and Umrah guide based in Lucknow, operating multiple fake identities.

Several women, some of whom wore hijab and valued their privacy deeply, found their private messages circulating across Instagram. They began receiving harassment, bullying, and explicit rape threats from unknown accounts. One of the affected families approached Advocate Sudhir Rao in mid-March 2025, after an initial complaint to the local police station in Gomti Nagar had not resulted in any formal action. A structured legal strategy — combining a cyber crime complaint, supporting evidence documentation, and a representation to the Superintendent of Police — led to the case being registered and the preliminary investigation being initiated within a few weeks.

You can read about this case in detail at https://sudhirrao.com/private-group-chat-leaked-harassment-rape-threats-legal-reme/