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Delhi police report AI-edited sexual images used to harass a former partner

Delhi police said they arrested a man in July 2025 after a former partner complained that her photographs were being misused online. According to the police account reported by The Indian Express, he used AI tools to create sexual images and circulated them through fake Instagram accounts, also impersonating her identity. Police described a sustained harassment campaign and said they recovered a smartphone for examination. The start of the campaign and the later case outcome are unknown.

AI system
Unidentified image tool
Unknown
Occurred
Event date unknown
Reported
2 July 2025
Event location
India
What the AI did
Depicted or impersonated the person
Reported harm
Exploitation or AbuseReputational Harm
Whose AI use
Someone else’s AI use
Setting
Privacy · Relationships
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source
3 claims: 3 reported. 2 open questions
People reported harmed
At least 1 person

AI system as recorded: Unspecified AI image-editing tools

What Happened

Delhi police said they arrested a man in July 2025 after a former partner complained that her photographs were being misused online. According to the police account reported by The Indian Express, he used AI tools to create sexual images and circulated them through fake Instagram accounts, also impersonating her identity. Police described a sustained harassment campaign and said they recovered a smartphone for examination. The start of the campaign and the later case outcome are unknown.

Reported harm

Police report the nonconsensual creation and online circulation of sexual images and identity impersonation targeting one woman, with an alleged aim of humiliating her and damaging her reputation.

What remains unknown

  • The campaign's first date and the tools used are unknown.
  • Forensic findings and the outcome of the criminal case were not inspected.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. Police expressly attribute the images of the woman to AI tools. The reviewer inspected the reported police account, without forensic results or imagery.

3 claims: 3 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported Delhi police said the accused created sexual images of his former partner with AI tools and disseminated them through fake Instagram profiles.

Causal attribution. One police account relayed by The Indian Express. Alleged conduct remains reported, without a finding of guilt or forensic verification.

Reported The police account says the woman reported the misuse of her photographs and that the accused impersonated her identity and targeted her followers to humiliate her.

Causal attribution. One police account relayed by The Indian Express. Alleged conduct remains reported, without a finding of guilt or forensic verification.

Reported Police said they arrested the accused, recovered a smartphone for forensic examination and filed a case under stalking and insult provisions.

Causal attribution. One police account relayed by The Indian Express. Alleged conduct remains reported, without a finding of guilt or forensic verification.

Sources

1 source inspected. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

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

The report places the police investigation and accused in Delhi, India. The woman's country of residence and a court proceeding are not separately established.

Reviewed for publication 2026-09-30: An inspected report describes one woman's complaint and police allegations of AI image abuse and impersonation. Private identities are omitted. The event is undated because the source dates the arrest, rather than the beginning of the harm.

People reported harmed in this case

At least 1 person

0 AI participants · 1 other person harmed

The police account concerns one former partner. No additional people are counted from the unrelated page caption.

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

Cite this case

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

APA

NOPE. (2026). Delhi police report AI-edited sexual images used to harass a former partner. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2025-delhi-reported-ai-edited-images-ex-partner-harassment

BibTeX

@misc{2025_delhi_reported_ai_edited_images_ex_partner_harassment,
  title = {Delhi police report AI-edited sexual images used to harass a former partner},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2025-delhi-reported-ai-edited-images-ex-partner-harassment}
}

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