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Faridabad: 19-year-old student dies by suicide after blackmail with AI-morphed images of himself and his sisters

On 25 October 2025, a 19-year-old second-year BCom student at DAV College, Faridabad (Haryana), consumed sulphas tablets in his room in Baselwa Colony, Old Faridabad, and died during hospital treatment. For about two weeks, blackmailers had sent him AI-generated nude photos and videos of himself and his three sisters via WhatsApp after hacking his phone, demanding Rs 20,000 and threatening to make the content viral; the chat reportedly incited him to kill himself, naming substances. Police registered an FIR on 26 October 2025 at the Faridabad Old police station under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and sent his phone for forensic examination. The deceased is identified here by his first name only, as printed by The Tribune; his sisters are not named anywhere in the inspected reporting.

AI System

AI deepfake/nudify tools (unspecified)

Unknown

Occurred

25 Oct 2025

Reported

26 October 2025

Event location

India

Platform

other

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: supported. Four independent reporting chains attribute to family and police accounts that the blackmail material was AI-generated/morphed nude imagery. The thana in-charge publicly framed the case as misuse of AI technology. The specific tool is unidentified; police confirmation is at the level of officer statements to press, not a published forensic finding.

AI-to-person relation

  • Depicted or impersonated the person

Core relations are communication, acting on someone’s behalf, and depiction or impersonation. Decision and claim relations are retained as contextual cases.

Someone else’s AI use. Settings: Everyday life, Justice.

Claim status: Corroborated

Rahul, 19, a second-year BCom student at DAV College, Faridabad, consumed sulphas tablets in his room in Baselwa Colony, Old Faridabad, around 7 p.m. on Saturday 25 October 2025 and died during hospital treatment.

Causal attribution: The death and its circumstances are carried by four independent chains citing police and family; the suicide classification is the police/family account, not a post-mortem finding quoted in the sources.

  • News report (supports): 'It was around 7 pm on Saturday when Rahul consumed sulphas tablets in his room' (SHO account); DAV College second-year BCom; died during treatment.
  • News report (supports): Father's and thana in-charge's accounts: sulphas tablets around 7 p.m. Saturday; died in treatment; family from Siwan, father a driver, three sisters (two married).
  • News report (supports): PRO and NIT police station official accounts of the death during the deepfake-blackmail investigation.
  • News report (supports): Mother's account and the investigating officer's confirmation of the death and the family structure.

Claim status: Corroborated

For about two weeks before his death, blackmailers sent him AI-generated nude and obscene photos and videos of himself and his three sisters via WhatsApp after hacking his phone, demanded Rs 20,000, threatened to make the content viral, and incited him to kill himself naming substances.

Causal attribution: The AI-morphing connection and the extortion are attributed to family and police accounts across four chains; the distress period varies ('ten days' vs 'about two weeks') and the incitement-to-suicide detail rests on The Tribune's police account and Dainik Bhaskar's family account.

  • News report (supports): Father: 'करीब दो हफ्ते पहले किसी ने राहुल का मोबाइल फोन हैक कर लिया था' (phone hacked about two weeks earlier); AI-made nude photos/videos of Rahul and his sisters; Rs 20,000 demand; thana in-charge: 'a serious example of the misuse of cyber crime and AI technology'.
  • News report (supports): AI-generated obscene photos of the sisters; blackmail over about two weeks; last call from acquaintance 'Neeraj' before the death; the chat incited suicide naming substances.
  • News report (supports): NIT police station official: 'They had created morphed pictures and images of the deceased, along with his sisters'; distress period reported as 'ten days'.
  • News report (supports): AI-generated pictures of his three sisters used for blackmail; chat showed the 'aja mere paas' location message (mother's accusation).

Claim status: Corroborated

Police registered an FIR on 26 October 2025 at the Faridabad Old police station under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and sent the phone to a forensic laboratory; no arrest had been reported as of 27 October 2025.

Causal attribution: The FIR's existence and the forensic examination agree across chains; the historical record's 'abetment to suicide charges' is not confirmed by any inspected source and is dropped.

  • News report (supports): 'FIR registered ... under relevant Sections of the BNS at Faridabad Old police station on Sunday'; phone sent to forensic lab; no arrest reported.
  • News report (supports): FIR under BNS reported by the PRO; investigation assigned to the NIT police station.
  • News report (supports): FIR noted in the ground report with the thana in-charge's statement.

Claim status: Reported

Suspect accounts conflict: The Tribune names the accused as 'Sahil' (a former schoolmate of the deceased) and 'Neeraj' with others; Hindustan Times reports an FIR against two unidentified suspects; NDTV reports the mother accusing her brother-in-law and 'a girl'.

Causal attribution: The conflict across chains is preserved rather than resolved; none of the suspect accounts is independently confirmed, and no arrest had been reported.

  • News report (supports): 'FIR registered against Sahil, Neeraj ... and others'; 'Rahul and Sahil previously attended the same school.'
  • News report (contradicts): FIR 'against two unidentified suspects' per the PRO.
  • News report (context): Mother Meena Devi accused her brother-in-law and 'a girl' of hatching the plan.

What remains unknown

  • The specific AI tool used for the morphing is unidentified in all inspected reporting.
  • Whether any chargesheet, arrest or trial followed after 27 October 2025 is unknown; no 2026 coverage was found (absence of coverage is not absence of action).
  • The suspect accounts conflict across chains (named acquaintances vs unidentified suspects vs the mother's accusation).
  • The distress period is reported as 'ten days' (Hindustan Times) and 'about two weeks' (other chains).
  • The historical record's 'abetment to suicide charges' is unconfirmed; inspected sources say only 'relevant sections of the BNS'.
  • Whether the fabricated images were distributed beyond the WhatsApp messages to the victim is not reported.
  • The sisters' ages are not stated; they are treated as potentially minor for sensitivity purposes.
Source reading, translation and location

News report · hi · Source inspected

Read in Hindi on 2026-09-15 (JSON-LD datePublished 2025-10-26 13:48 IST). Model translation, no human reviewer. Original ground reporting with own photographs; quotes the father and the thana in-charge.

News report · en · Source inspected

Read in English on 2026-09-15 (2025-10-27 18:46 IST; staff byline Sanjay Yadav).

News report · en · Source inspected

Read in English on 2026-09-15 (2025-10-27). Cites the Faridabad police PRO and an NIT police station official.

News report · en · Source inspected

Read in English on 2026-09-15 (2025-10-27; inputs from Jitender Beniwal). Headline says 'lakhs of rupees' while the body says Rs 20,000; the body figure is used.

This source shares an underlying account with another listed source.

News aggregation · en · Source inspected

Explicitly aggregates NDTV and Hindustan Times ('his father said, according to NDTV... Hindustan Times reported'); not independent support.

This source shares an underlying account with another listed source.

News report · Language unknown · Source unavailable

HTTP 403 (also /amp) on 2026-09-15; case headline seen verbatim in Google News RSS. Body not inspected; language not established.

Event countries: India. Affected-person countries: India. Court countries: Unknown.

Event: Baselwa Colony, Old Faridabad, Haryana (all four chains). Affected persons: the student and his sisters at the family home there. No court proceeding is reported; a police station and a forensic laboratory are not courts, so court_countries is [].

Reviewed for publication 2026-09-15: Restored under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact case with a death. The death-publication rule is satisfied: four independent inspected chains (Dainik Bhaskar, The Tribune, Hindustan Times, NDTV) confirm both the death and the reported AI-morphing connection, attributed to distinct police and family sourcing; the AI connection is a reported police/family attribution, not established causation. The deceased is identified by first name only (The Tribune's practice); the sisters, potential minors, are unnamed.

What Happened

Rahul, 19, the youngest child of a driver from Siwan, Bihar, studied in the second year of a BCom degree at DAV College, Faridabad, and lived in Baselwa Colony, Old Faridabad. About two weeks before his death, someone hacked his mobile phone (per his father's account to Dainik Bhaskar) and began sending him AI-generated nude and obscene photos and videos depicting him and his three sisters (two of them married) via WhatsApp, demanding Rs 20,000 and threatening to make the material viral. The Tribune reports the last call before his death came from an acquaintance, and that the chat incited suicide naming substances. Around 7 p.m. on Saturday 25 October 2025 he consumed sulphas tablets in his room and died during treatment at hospital. On 26 October police at the Faridabad Old police station registered an FIR under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita: The Tribune names the accused as 'Sahil' (a former schoolmate of the deceased) and 'Neeraj' with others, while Hindustan Times, citing the Faridabad police public relations officer and an NIT police station official, reports an FIR against two unidentified suspects; NDTV reports the mother accusing her brother-in-law and 'a girl' of hatching the plan. The phone was sent to a forensic laboratory; no arrest had been reported as of 27 October 2025, and no chargesheet, trial or 2026 development was found in this review. The historical record's claim of 'abetment to suicide charges' is not confirmed by any inspected source. The thana in-charge called the case 'a serious example of the misuse of cyber crime and AI technology' (Dainik Bhaskar).

Reported harm

A 19-year-old student died by suicide during a sextortion campaign built on AI-morphed nude imagery of him and his three sisters; the sisters' images were created and used for blackmail with threats to make them viral (image-based abuse), while the family lost its youngest child.

DeathPsychological DistressReputational Harm

How Harm Occurred

AI morphing tools turned photographs stolen from a hacked phone into convincing nude imagery of the victim and his sisters; the artifacts armed a sextortion campaign combining financial extortion, threats of public humiliation and reported incitement to suicide.

Outcome

Unknown

FIR registered 26 October 2025 at Faridabad Old police station under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (suspect details conflict across outlets: named acquaintances vs two unidentified suspects); phone sent to a forensic laboratory. No arrest reported as of 27 October 2025; no chargesheet, trial or 2026 development found in this review.

Sources

Dainik Bhaskar (26 Oct 2025, Hindi) — earliest report; original ground reporting with the father's and the thana in-charge's accounts(opens in new tab)

26 October 2025

Primary

The Tribune (staff byline) — SHO account, FIR against named suspects, forensic lab, former schoolmate detail; prints only 'Rahul'(opens in new tab)

27 October 2025

Hindustan Times — Faridabad police PRO and NIT police station official; FIR against two unidentified suspects; distress 'ten days'(opens in new tab)

27 October 2025

NDTV (inputs Jitender Beniwal) — mother's accusation, investigating officer; headline 'lakhs' vs body Rs 20,000 inconsistency(opens in new tab)

27 October 2025

DNA India — aggregation of NDTV and Hindustan Times (derivative; not independent support)(opens in new tab)

27 October 2025

India TV — case headline verbatim in Google News RSS; body HTTP 403 (unavailable)(opens in new tab)

27 October 2025

Interaction Concerns

Psychological ManipulationThird Party Harm Facilitation

People described

Rahul (first name only, as printed by The Tribune), 19, male second-year BCom student, and his three sisters (unnamed; ages not stated), whose AI-morphed images were created and used for blackmail

People reported harmed in this case

4 people

0 AI participants · 4 other people harmed

Four people harmed through others' use of AI tools: the deceased (death) and his three sisters, whose AI-morphed nude images were created and used for blackmail (creation plus extortionate use, without reported distribution). The three sisters are consistently reported across all four independent chains; no further image subjects are reported. The blackmailers are perpetrators, not counted; the deceased did not use AI.

Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.

Tags

#criminal#suicide#deepfake#sextortion#ncii#india#others-use

Cite this case

Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.

APA

NOPE. (2025). Faridabad: 19-year-old student dies by suicide after blackmail with AI-morphed images of himself and his sisters. NOPE: AI and people. https://nope.net/incidents/2025-bharti-india-deepfake-sextortion-death

BibTeX

@misc{2025_bharti_india_deepfake_sextortion_death,
  title = {Faridabad: 19-year-old student dies by suicide after blackmail with AI-morphed images of himself and his sisters},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2025},
  howpublished = {NOPE: AI and people},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2025-bharti-india-deepfake-sextortion-death}
}

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