A
24-year-old
man
was
arrested
after
he
allegedly
posed
as
a
casting
director
and
demanded
sexual
favours
from
a
Kolkata
woman,
who
claims
to
have
acted
in
a
few
Bengali
films,
promising
her
a
role
in
a
web
series,
a
Mumbai
police
official
said
on
Tuesday.
The
accused,
identified
as
Omprakash
Tiwari,
had
earlier
worked
with
a
production
house
and
thus
knew
the
casting
process
for
actors.
He
falsely
claimed
on
social
media
that
he
runs
a
production
house
in
Mumbai,
the
official
added.
Tiwari
was
arrested
by
the
cyber
cell
of
the
Malad
Police
from
Titwala
in
the
neighbouring
Thane
district
on
Saturday
night.
The
complainant
told
the
Mumbai
Police
that
Tiwari
threatened
to
circulate
her
private
pictures
on
social
media
if
she
refused
his
sexual
demands,
the
official
said.
"The
victim
met
the
accused
who
posed
as
a
casting
director
on
a
social
media
platform.
He
offered
her
a
role
in
web
series
and
asked
her
to
send
her
private
photos.
After
she
sent
the
photos,
Tiwari
started
to
threaten
her
saying
he
would
post
them
online
if
she
failed
to
oblige
his
demands," the
official
added.
Malad
police
station
senior
inspector
Dhananjay
Ligade
said
the
accused
had
earlier
worked
with
a
production
house
and
thus
knew
the
casting
process.
"He
did
not
run
any
production
house".
Tiwari
was
booked
under
sections
354-A
(Sexual
harassment)
and
354-D
(stalking)
of
the
Indian
Penal
Code
(IPC)
and
the
Information
Technology
Act,
he
said,
adding
that
further
investigation
is
underway.