Indore Engineer AI-NCII Revenge Campaign After Rejected Proposal (India)

In January 2026, Indore police arrested a civil engineer, Ayush Agnihotri, for a sustained AI image-abuse campaign carried out in revenge after the family of a woman he wanted to marry rejected his proposal.

Over roughly seven months, the accused used AI morphing tools to fabricate obscene images of the woman and her sister, built from their ordinary photographs. He then mailed and circulated the fabricated material to the victims' relatives and neighbours, deliberately seeking to damage their reputation and standing in the community.

According to reporting, the accused had studied crime-evasion techniques from a television crime show in an attempt to avoid detection, underscoring the premeditated nature of the campaign. Police arrested him (reported around January 31, 2026) under provisions covering creation and circulation of obscene content, harassment, and the IT Act.

• AI morphing tools used to fabricate obscene images of two identifiable women (a primary victim and her sister) from ordinary photographs
• Synthetic material mailed/circulated to relatives and neighbours to inflict reputational and social harm
• Premeditated, months-long campaign with deliberate steps to evade detection

AI morphing tools enabled a rejected suitor to fabricate convincing obscene imagery of a woman and her sister and weaponise it as revenge, circulating it through the victims' family and neighbourhood network where such imagery carries heavy social stigma.

The documented harm is severe reputational damage, social embarrassment, relationship and family damage, and psychological distress. This is third-party harm facilitation involving multiple victims: the AI user was the offender and the depicted women were the victims.

• After the victim's family rejected his marriage proposal, the accused — a civil engineer named Ayush Agnihotri — waged a roughly seven-month harassment campaign, using AI tools to create obscene morphed images of the woman and her sister.
• He mailed and circulated the fabricated images to the victims' relatives and neighbours to damage their reputation; he reportedly studied crime-evasion techniques from a television crime show to avoid detection.
• Indore police arrested him (reported around January 31, 2026) under provisions covering creation/circulation of obscene content, harassment, and IT Act offences.