{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-09-30T05:32:56.261Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"indore","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":4,"coverage":{"cases":4,"countries":1,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":1,"minors":0,"coreRelations":4,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2025-indore-reported-relative-voice-clone-transfer-loss","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body: official's voice-generation and claimed visa account.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The named police official attributes the impersonated relative's voice to AI and describes the visa emergency demand.","causal_attribution":"The inspected reporting describes this account. Claims remain attributed and causation is alleged; multiple reports of the same victim or police/court account are one independence group."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body: exact transferred total and next-day discovery.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police say the local resident transferred Rs 1.83 lakh in multiple transactions and discovered the deception after contacting the real relative.","causal_attribution":"The inspected reporting describes this account. Claims remain attributed and causation is alleged; multiple reports of the same victim or police/court account are one independence group."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body: bank coordination and recovery status.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The official says the cyber cell worked with banks to freeze accounts and seek recovery.","causal_attribution":"The inspected reporting describes this account. Claims remain attributed and causation is alleged; multiple reports of the same victim or police/court account are one independence group."}],"effects":[{"label":"Police-reported loss of Rs 1.83 lakh through several transfers","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/indore-resident-loses-rs-1-83-lakh-to-ai-generated-voice-fraud/articleshow/125598857.cms","kind":"journalistic","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"original-account-aiid-1566"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","relationships"],"unknowns":["The first event date, voice tool and scammer identity are unknown.","The final recovery and police outcome were not inspected."],"geography":{"basis":"The victim is described as a local Indore resident and the investigation is in Indore, India. The real relative's location abroad is not a separate harm setting.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"An inspected source describes a concrete person-level adverse experience connected to the specified AI use. Statements remain attributed, private identities are minimized, and unknown dates, counts and technical details are preserved.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The named officer expressly attributes this caller's voice to AI. No audio or forensic record was inspected. The later generic spoof-call example is a different event.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Indore police report Rs 1.83 lakh loss after a voice impersonation of a relative","summary":"Indore police told The Times of India that a local resident transferred Rs 1.83 lakh after callers used a purported AI-generated voice to impersonate his brother-in-law abroad. The callers claimed an expired visa would lead to imprisonment or job loss unless fees were paid. The victim discovered the fraud after speaking to the real relative the next day. Police said they coordinated account freezes and were working on recovery. The first call date and recovery outcome are unknown.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-11-27","aiSystem":"Reported AI-generated relative voice impersonation","aiProduct":"Unidentified voice-cloning tool","aiCompany":"Unknown","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Police-reported loss of Rs 1.83 lakh through several transfers","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One local resident transferred funds. The impersonated relative was not actually imprisoned or deprived of a job and is not counted as harmed.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/indore-resident-loses-rs-1-83-lakh-to-ai-generated-voice-fraud/articleshow/125598857.cms","primarySourceLabel":"The Times of India, 27 November 2025, named police official account","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T01:11:39.324544+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:57:54.662513+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":[]},{"id":"2026-indore-play-school-operator-reports-rs-97500-loss-after-call-police-suspect-ai-voice-cloning","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"On the night of January 6","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"closely resembled her cousin’s phone number","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The caller confirmed that he was her cousin and sounded exactly like him.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"urgently required life-saving cardiac surgery","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The incident occurred on Tuesday night","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"The caller claimed he was at a hospital for a friend’s urgent heart surgery.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"urgently required life-saving cardiac surgery","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"6 जनवरी 2026 की रात","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"A woman who runs a play school in Indore reported that on the night of 6 January 2026 a call came from an unknown number close to a cousin's number, in a voice that sounded exactly like the cousin's. The caller said a close friend needed urgent cardiac surgery at a private hospital in Indore.","causal_attribution":"The woman's own account as told to a reporter or in a police complaint, repeated by the other outlets. The Free Press Journal calls the relative a brother and Malwa Abhi Tak describes a friend's heart attack, so details differ between outlets. No call record was inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"transferred a total of Rs 97,500 to the QR code in four transactions","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"was therefore transferring the amount in parts to her digital payment account","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"I confirmed receiving message alerts showing the money had been credited to my digital payment account","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"not a single rupee had actually been credited to her account from the number used by the caller","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"four separate Google Pay transactions totalling Rs 97,500","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"the fraudsters sent a fake ‘credit’ SMS to the teacher’s phone","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"transferring money to her digital payment account in small amounts","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"transferred ₹97,500 in four transactions","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"The transaction alerts, investigators later said, were fabricated to create a false sense of confirmation.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"97 हजार 500","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"ऑनलाइन ट्रांसफर कर दिए","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"A total of Rs 97,500 was sent to a QR code in four transactions at the caller's direction. The caller had said money was being credited to the woman's payment account first, and message alerts appeared to confirm the credits, but no money from the caller's number had been credited.","causal_attribution":"The woman's account relayed by four outlets. No bank or payment-app record was inspected. The sources differ on who operated the payment app and on how the woman found out (checking the account balance or calling the relative's real number). The fabricated-alert statement in The420 is attributed to investigators without naming them."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"lost her entire savings of Rs 97,500","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"which included her savings, funds meant for teachers’ salaries, and EMI payments on a loan taken for the school","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"transferring her entire savings","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"an amount that included her personal savings, funds meant for paying teachers’ salaries, and instalments for a loan taken to run the school","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The New Indian Express and The420 describe the Rs 97,500 as the woman's entire savings, including funds meant for teachers' salaries and loan instalments for the school.","causal_attribution":"The composition of the loss is the outlets' description of the woman's account. No accounts or payroll records were inspected, and the outlets do not report any effect on wages or loan payments beyond the description."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"He denied having made any such call and confirmed that the number used was not his.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"has remained switched off since the fraud","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"she contacted her real brother, only to discover that he had never called her","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"who denied making any such call and confirmed that the mobile number used by the fraudster did not belong to him","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"remained switched off since the incident","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The cousin described in the account denied making the call and confirmed that the calling number was not the cousin's. The calling number has been switched off since the call.","causal_attribution":"The denial and the switched-off number are stated by the woman and the woman's husband as relayed by the outlets. The cousin is not quoted directly and no telecom record was inspected."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"preliminary investigations strongly suggest the use of AI-based voice modulation technology","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"preliminary findings strongly point to the use of AI-driven voice cloning technology","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"fraudsters used AI voice modulation to mimic","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"शुरुआती जांच में सामने आया है कि ठगों ने एआई वॉयस क्लोनिंग तकनीक का इस्तेमाल कर भाई की आवाज की नकल की थी","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"An Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) in Indore said preliminary investigations strongly suggest AI-based voice modulation technology was used. The Free Press Journal states without the qualifier that AI voice modulation was used, and Malwa Abhi Tak reports AI voice cloning as a preliminary-investigation finding. No source reports an analysis of the audio or names an AI tool.","causal_attribution":"A preliminary police view relayed by four outlets that share one source chain. The outlet that drops the qualifier adds no evidence. The woman last spoke to the cousin about two years before the call."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"on January 7. A case has been registered against unidentified persons","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Investigations are ongoing.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"An FIR has been registered against unidentified persons","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"the Information Technology Act, 2000","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The matter was reported to police on 7 January, the day after the call, and a case against unidentified persons was registered under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Information Technology Act. The outlets describe the investigation as ongoing.","causal_attribution":"The outlets' description of the police complaint. The first information report itself was not inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"Play school operator reported losing Rs 97,500, described as the operator's entire savings including school payroll and loan funds, after a call in a voice matching a relative's","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2026/Jan/09/madhya-pradeshs-first-ai-voice-cloning-fraud-reported-in-indore-play-school-head-loses-entire-savings","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full on the live page. The woman appears under a changed name in this source, which is not used here.","independence_group":"indore-play-school-call-jan-2026-account"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.freepressjournal.in/indore/indore-cyber-crime-43-year-old-school-teacher-falls-victim-to-ai-voice-cloning-loses-97k","kind":"local_reporting","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full. Indore staff-reporter piece dated 8 to 9 January 2026 that calls the relative a brother.","independence_group":"indore-play-school-call-jan-2026-account"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://the420.in/ai-voice-cloning-fraud-madhya-pradesh-indore-play-school-owner-duped/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"The live page answers HTTP 403 to automated requests. Read through an Internet Archive capture of 2026-01-10 that holds the complete article text.","independence_group":"indore-play-school-call-jan-2026-account"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://malwaabhitak.com/174176/","kind":"local_reporting","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Hindi original read directly by the research agent (an AI model). Passages are quoted verbatim in Hindi. English assertions are the agent's own rendering and no human translator reviewed them.","independence_group":"indore-play-school-call-jan-2026-account"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["No audio analysis, recording or AI tool is reported. The AI attribution is a preliminary police view, and the Free Press Journal states it without the qualifier.","The woman last spoke to the cousin about two years before the call, so the reported match between the caller's voice and the cousin's rests on the woman's impression.","The relative is a cousin in the New Indian Express, The420 and Malwa Abhi Tak and a brother in the Free Press Journal. Two Hindi technology-desk pieces read but not cited (AajTak and Amar Ujala) also say brother and round the loss to one lakh rupees. The cited sources give Rs 97,500.","The sources differ on who operated the payment app and on how the woman found out (checking the account balance or calling the relative's real number). The Free Press Journal names Google Pay and a fake credit message, and the New Indian Express describes message alerts that the woman took as confirmation of credits.","An earlier call about the play school roughly three months before was noted by the woman's husband, who wondered whether it was linked. The420 says investigators are probing this. No connection is established.","No source reports recovery of the money, an arrest or the identity or location of the caller. The investigation was described as ongoing on 9 January 2026.","The Free Press Journal and Malwa Abhi Tak describe the woman as a school teacher and do not mention a play school, while the New Indian Express and The420 say the woman runs a small play school.","The four outlets appear to share one source chain, the woman's account and police statements around the police complaint, so they are treated as one reporting chain and no claim is marked corroborated."],"geography":{"basis":"The sources place the call, the police complaint and the hospital named by the caller in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, cite the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and state amounts in rupees. The caller's location is unknown and no court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Four outlets describe one call reported by a woman who runs a play school in Indore. The outlets place the call on the night of 6 January, and one gives the year 2026. All claims are attributed to the woman's account or to police statements as relayed by the outlets and are treated as one reporting chain. The woman is described by role because the source uses a changed name. The cousin, the hospital doctor and other household members are not named or described beyond role. The AI attribution is a preliminary police view.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"An Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) in Indore is quoted saying preliminary investigations strongly suggest AI-based voice modulation technology was used. The Free Press Journal states the AI use without that qualifier and Malwa Abhi Tak reports it as a preliminary-investigation finding. No audio analysis, recording or tool is reported, and the woman last spoke to the cousin about two years before the call, so the match between the caller's voice and the cousin's is the woman's impression.","status":"suspected"},"person_relations":["communicated_with","depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Indore play school operator reports losing Rs 97,500 after a call in a voice matching a relative's that police preliminarily attribute to AI voice cloning","summary":"The New Indian Express (9 January 2026) reported that a woman who runs a small play school in Indore said that on the night of 6 January a call came from an unknown number close to a cousin's number, in a voice that sounded exactly like the cousin's. The caller said a close friend needed urgent cardiac surgery at a private hospital in Indore and asked for money to be forwarded to a QR code. A total of Rs 97,500 was sent in four transactions. None of the money the caller had said was being credited arrived, the cousin denied making the call, and the calling number has been switched off. An Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) in Indore said preliminary investigations strongly suggest AI-based voice modulation technology was used. The Free Press Journal, The420 and Malwa Abhi Tak reported the same call. All four outlets appear to rest on the woman's account and police statements, no audio analysis or AI tool is reported, and the police case against unidentified persons was described as ongoing.","incidentDate":"2026-01-06","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-01-09","aiSystem":"Unidentified AI voice-modulation or voice-cloning tool (preliminary police view, no tool named)","aiProduct":"Unidentified voice-cloning tool (suspected)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The New Indian Express reports that Rs 97,500 was sent to a QR code in four transactions and describes it as the woman's entire savings, including funds meant for teachers' salaries and loan instalments for the school. The Free Press Journal and The420 give the same amount. The loss is the woman's account as relayed by the outlets. No bank or payment-app record was inspected and no source reports recovery.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the woman who runs the play school, is reported to have lost Rs 97,500. The cousin whose voice was reportedly imitated, the hospital doctor named on a QR code, the teachers whose salary funds were affected and the household members present during the call are not reported harmed and are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2026/Jan/09/madhya-pradeshs-first-ai-voice-cloning-fraud-reported-in-indore-play-school-head-loses-entire-savings","primarySourceLabel":"The New Indian Express, 9 January 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T01:09:17.050539+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:44:22.308838+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2026"]},{"id":"2026-indore-agnihotri-ai-ncii","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The woman had filed a complaint at Banganga police station in Indore in July 2025'; 'The complainant reported facing mental harassment due to these incidents'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The case started in July 2025 when a young woman filed a complaint at Banganga police station stating that an unknown person was sending letters with abusive content and her nude morphed photos to her, her relatives and neighbours.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"In July 2025 a woman complained at Banganga police station, Indore, that an unknown person was mailing letters with abusive content and morphed nude photographs of her and her sister to her, her relatives and neighbours and pasting posters near their home, causing mental harassment; an FIR was registered against an unknown accused.","causal_attribution":"Police release and DCP statement as reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'he revealed that marriage talks were underway between him and the complainant’s sister, but the family refused the proposal'; 'The accused was arrested on Wednesday under crime number 918/2025 and case was registered at Banganga police station under relevant sections of BNS, IT Act, and SC/ST Act.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'City crime branch arrested a man on Friday for harassing a woman by circulating her morphed obscene pictures.'; 'the marriage did not happen because their horoscopes did not match'; 'changed two or three buses while travelling from Indore to post offices in Ujjain, Dewas, Khategaon, Ashta and Dhar to send the letters.'; 'Police believe he carried out such acts around seven times between July 2025 and January 2026.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'जुलाई 2025 से जनवरी 2026 के बीच उसने सात बार इस तरह की हरकत की.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"At the end of January 2026 the Indore crime branch arrested an engineer working as a data analyst, who told police he had sought revenge after his marriage proposal to the complainant's sister, made through a matrimonial website, fell through over a horoscope mismatch; he posted the material about seven times between July 2025 and January 2026 from post offices in Ujjain, Dewas, Khategaon, Ashta and Dhar, disguised and changing buses; the case was registered under the BNS, the IT Act and the SC/ST Act and he was remanded.","causal_attribution":"Police account (crime branch / DCP Crime) relayed by all four outlets; allegations in an untried case."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'सिविल इंजीनियर एक लड़की के AI से अश्लील फोटो बनाकर उसके परिवारवालों, रिश्तेदारों और पड़ोसियों को लेटर के साथ भेज रहा था।'; 'पुलिस का कहना है कि डिजिटल फॉरेंसिक जांच में AI से बनाई गई तस्वीरों के सबूत मिले हैं'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'morphing photographs of a woman and her sister and mailing them along with threatening letters'","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Patrika reports that the obscene photographs of the young woman were made with AI and that police said digital forensic examination found evidence of AI-generated images; the English reports describe the images as morphed without naming the technology.","causal_attribution":"Single-outlet report of a police forensic statement; police statements quoted in English say 'morphed'."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'इतना ही नहीं, आरोपी परिवार को एसिड अटैक की धमकियां भी दे रहा था.'; 'पुलिस ने आरोपी के घर से वारदात में इस्तेमाल लैपटॉप, प्रिंटर और अन्य सामग्री बरामद की है.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"NewsTak reports that the accused also threatened the family with an acid attack and that police recovered a laptop, printer and other material used in the offence from his home.","causal_attribution":"Single Hindi report relaying the police account."}],"effects":[{"label":"morphed nude images of two sisters, with abusive and threatening letters, were mailed to their relatives and neighbours and pasted as posters near their home over about seven months","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/man-arrested-for-posting-morphed-photos-after-marriage-proposal-rejected/articleshow/127809228.cms","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (The Times of India, Indore, 31 January 2026; html lang=en). Based on an official police release.","independence_group":"indore-crime-branch-briefing-jan-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.freepressjournal.in/indore/indore-news-miffed-engineer-circulates-womans-morphed-obscene-pictures-after-rejection-of-marriage-proposal","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (Free Press Journal, Indore, 31 January 2026; html lang=en). Quotes DCP (Crime) Rajesh Tripathi; same police account.","independence_group":"indore-crime-branch-briefing-jan-2026"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.patrika.com/indore-news/ai-misuse-deepfake-civil-engineer-arrested-20306882","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (Patrika, Indore, 30 January 2026; html lang=hi). Hindi; passages quoted in the original and paraphrased in English by the reviewer. The only inspected report that attributes the images to AI.","independence_group":"indore-crime-branch-briefing-jan-2026"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.newstak.in/madhya-pradesh/story/indore-man-arrested-sending-private-photos-relatives-one-sided-love-3230358-2026-01-31","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (NewsTak, 31 January 2026; html lang=hi). Hindi; adds the acid-attack threats and the seizure of a laptop and printer; same police account.","independence_group":"indore-crime-branch-briefing-jan-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["relationships","privacy","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Whether the images were made with an AI tool: only Patrika says so, reporting a police forensic finding; the tool is not identified by any report.","The exact arrest date (The Times of India says Wednesday, the Free Press Journal says Friday; both published 31 January 2026).","Whether a charge sheet has been filed or the case has progressed since January 2026.","How many relatives and neighbours received the mailings and posters.","The start date within July 2025 (month precision).","The end of the series is recorded as January 2026; incident_end_date 2026-01-30 marks the month of the last reported mailing and of the arrest, and the day is not established (the arrest day itself is disputed)."],"geography":{"basis":"Complaint at Banganga police station, Indore, Madhya Pradesh; posters pasted near the sisters' home in Indore; letters posted from towns in Madhya Pradesh; the accused was produced before a court in Indore (The Times of India, Free Press Journal).","court_countries":["IN"],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Restored under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact and harassment case with two identified (unnamed) depicted people, a police complaint and an arrest, reported by four Indore outlets relaying the same police account; the attribution of the morphing to AI rests on one Hindi report and is recorded as reported. The original ID and first-publication timestamp are preserved; the historical row's incident date and the description of the rejected proposal are corrected. The accused is not named in the public text.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-25"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Patrika (Hindi) reports that the obscene photographs were made with AI ('AI से बनाईं') and that police said digital forensic examination found evidence of AI-generated images ('पुलिस का कहना है कि डिजिटल फॉरेंसिक जांच में AI से बनाई गई तस्वीरों के सबूत मिले हैं'); The Times of India and the Free Press Journal, relaying the same police account, describe the images only as 'morphed' and name no tool. The attribution to AI rests on one outlet's report of the police account and is recorded as reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Indore: an engineer was arrested at the end of January 2026 for a seven-month campaign of posting morphed obscene images of a woman and her sister, with threatening letters, to their relatives and neighbours and pasting posters near their home after the family rejected his marriage proposal; one Hindi report attributes the morphing to AI, citing a police forensic finding (Times of India, Free Press Journal, Patrika, NewsTak, 30-31 January 2026)","summary":"Indore police said at the end of January 2026 that the crime branch had arrested an engineer working as a data analyst after a woman complained at Banganga police station in July 2025 that an unknown person was mailing letters with abusive content and morphed nude photographs of her and her sister to her, her relatives and neighbours, and pasting posters near their house, causing mental harassment and social embarrassment. Police said the accused had approached the complainant's sister through a matrimonial website, that the proposal fell through over a horoscope mismatch, and that he then sought revenge by sending the material about seven times between July 2025 and January 2026 from post offices in Ujjain, Dewas, Khategaon, Ashta and Dhar, wearing a mask and cap and changing buses to avoid being traced; NewsTak adds that he also threatened the family with an acid attack and that a laptop and printer were seized. The case was registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the IT Act and the SC/ST Act and he was remanded. Patrika reports that the obscene images were created with AI and that police said digital forensics found AI-generated images; the English reports describe them as morphed without naming the technology, so the AI attribution rests on one outlet.","incidentDate":"2025-07-01","incidentEndDate":"2026-01-30","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-01-30","aiSystem":"Image-morphing tool used to create obscene images from the sisters' photographs; Patrika describes it as AI, the other reports say only 'morphed' and no tool is identified","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","reputational_harm","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Two sisters had morphed nude images of themselves, with abusive and threatening letters, mailed repeatedly to their relatives and neighbours and pasted as posters near their home over about seven months; the complainant reported mental harassment and social embarrassment (police release via The Times of India and the Free Press Journal). Police attribute the campaign to the arrested man; the AI attribution comes from Patrika alone, which reports a police forensic finding.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The complainant and her sister, both depicted in the morphed images sent to relatives and neighbours (The Times of India, Free Press Journal). Two people; relatives who received the mail are not counted as harmed.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"IN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/man-arrested-for-posting-morphed-photos-after-marriage-proposal-rejected/articleshow/127809228.cms","primarySourceLabel":"The Times of India, 31 January 2026: Man arrested for posting morphed photos after marriage proposal rejected","firstPublishedAt":"2026-06-15T09:09:12.465142+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:40.374102+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","morphing","non-consensual-imagery","harassment","revenge","india","indore","madhya-pradesh","arrest","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-indore-ai-photos-blackmail","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'बाणगंगा थाना क्षेत्र में एक छात्रा ने युवक पर आरोप लगाया है कि उसने उसकी पुरानी तस्वीरों को एआई की मदद से आपत्तिजनक तरीके से एडिट किया।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'एक निजी कॉलेज की प्रथम वर्ष की छात्रा ने अपने ही एक परिचित युवक पर गंभीर आरोप लगाए हैं।'; 'उस समय शादी के माहौल में दोनों के बीच सामान्य जान-पहचान हुई और इसी दौरान आरोपी ने छात्रा की कुछ तस्वीरें भी खींच ली थीं।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'इनकार करने पर आरोपी ने शादी में साथ खीचें फोटो को एआइ की मदद से अश्लील बनाकर सोशल मीडिया पर वायरल करने की धमकी देना शुरू कर दी।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A first-year student at a private college in Indore complained that a young man she met at her sister's wedding in 2024, who took some of her photographs there, later pressed her to marry him and, when she refused, threatened to edit her photographs with AI into objectionable (Navbharat Times, Amar Ujala) or obscene (Patrika) images and post them online, and blackmailed her.","causal_attribution":"Complainant's account as relayed by the Banganga police (one chain)."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'आरोपी छात्रा के मंगेतर तक पहुंच गया और उसे एडिट की गई तस्वीरें दिखाईं। तस्वीरें देखने के बाद दोनों परिवारों में विवाद की स्थिति बन गई और आखिरकार सगाई टूट गई।'; 'इस घटना के बाद छात्रा गहरे मानसिक तनाव में चली गई।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'पीड़िता ने पुलिस को बताया कि दो माह पूर्व परिवार ने उनकी शादी एक युवक से तय कर दी।'; 'उसने मंगेतर को डरा धमकाकर शादी तुड़वाई।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'जब पीड़िता के परिवार ने उसकी शादी कहीं और तय करने की कोशिश की, तो आरोपी ने वहां भी बाधा डाली।'; 'लगभग दो महीने पहले जब युवती की सगाई हुई, तो आरोपी सीधे उसके घर पहुंच गया और होने वाले मंगेतर के सामने युवती के चरित्र पर झूठे आरोप लगाए, जिसके परिणामस्वरूप छात्रा की सगाई टूट गई।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"After her family arranged her engagement elsewhere, the accused intervened and the engagement was broken off: Navbharat Times says he reached her fiancé and showed him the edited pictures; Patrika says he went to the fiancé's home and intimidated him; Amar Ujala says he came to her house at the engagement about two months earlier and made false allegations about her character in front of the prospective fiancé. The student went into severe mental distress.","causal_attribution":"Complainant's account as relayed by police; the three descriptions of how the fiancé was approached are all recorded."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'इस मानसिक प्रताड़ना और सामाजिक अपमान से तंग आकर छात्रा ने आत्महत्या जैसा आत्मघाती कदम उठाने का मन बना लिया था।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'एडिशनल डीसीपी अमरेंद्र सिंह के मुताबिक छात्रा की शिकायत के आधार पर एफआईआर दर्ज कर ली गई है।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'अब पुलिस फरार आरोपी की तलाश में जुटी है।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Worn down by the harassment and social humiliation, she had resolved to take a suicidal step before confiding in her family, who took her to senior police officers; an FIR was registered at Banganga police station under the IT Act and sections on threats and defamation, and police were searching for the accused.","causal_attribution":"Amar Ujala's account of the suicidal intention and Navbharat Times' police quotation; no attempt is described."}],"effects":[{"label":"a college student was blackmailed with AI-edited images of herself; her engagement was broken off after the accused approached her fiancé, leaving her in severe distress","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/state/madhya-pradesh/indore/young-woman-photo-shown-to-her-fianc-engagement-broken-after-youth-in-indore-misuses-ai/articleshow/131043889.cms","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (Navbharat Times, Indore, 12 May 2026; html lang=hi). Hindi; passages quoted in the original and paraphrased in English by the reviewer. Quotes Additional DCP Amrendra Singh.","independence_group":"indore-banganga-complaint-may-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.amarujala.com/madhya-pradesh/indore/indore-news-college-student-blackmailed-with-ai-edited-photos-2026-05-12","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (Amar Ujala, Indore, 12 May 2026; html lang=hi). Hindi; same complaint as relayed by police; adds the threats to kill and the suicidal intention.","independence_group":"indore-banganga-complaint-may-2026"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.patrika.com/indore-news/student-s-obscene-ai-generated-video-used-to-intimidate-fiance-s-family-and-force-cancellation-of-wedding-20575699","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (Patrika, Indore, 13 May 2026; html lang=hi). Hindi; same complaint; describes the visit to the fiancé's home.","independence_group":"indore-banganga-complaint-may-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["relationships","privacy","education"],"unknowns":["Whether the accused has been arrested or charged since May 2026.","Whether the edited images or a video were actually published anywhere; the reports describe threats and the showing of pictures to the fiancé and family.","The tool used and whether police examined the images.","When the blackmail began is not established (after the 2024 wedding). The engagement was fixed and broken about two months before the 12-13 May 2026 reports (Amar Ujala 'लगभग दो महीने पहले'; Patrika 'दो माह पूर्व'), so the incident month is recorded as March 2026, approximately; the complaint month is a reporting date and is not used as the event date.","The complainant's age (a first-year college student; recorded as adult on that basis without a stated age)."],"geography":{"basis":"Complaint at Banganga police station, Indore, Madhya Pradesh; the complainant studies at a college in Indore and the accused is from a locality of Indore (Navbharat Times, Amar Ujala). No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Restored under the 2026-09-15 charter as an image-based blackmail case with one identified (unnamed) depicted person, an FIR and a reported broken engagement and severe distress, based on three Hindi reports relaying the complainant's account through the Indore police (one chain); claims recorded as reported. The original ID and first-publication timestamp are preserved; the historical row's statement of a suicide attempt is corrected to a reported suicidal intention. The accused is not named in the public text.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-25"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The complainant, as relayed by the Banganga police to three Hindi outlets, alleges that the accused edited her photographs with AI into an objectionable form and threatened to make them and a video viral; Navbharat Times says the edited pictures were shown to her fiancé. No tool is identified and the images were not examined by the reports.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Indore: a first-year college student complained in May 2026 that a man she met at her sister's wedding edited her photographs with AI into objectionable images after she refused to marry him, blackmailed her with them and, after approaching her fiancé (the reports differ on how), caused her engagement to be broken off; she had been contemplating suicide before confiding in her family (Navbharat Times, Amar Ujala, Patrika, 12-13 May 2026)","summary":"Indore police registered an FIR at Banganga police station on a first-year college student's complaint reported on 12 and 13 May 2026. She said she had met the accused, a young man from the Indore area, at her sister's wedding in 2024, where he took some photographs of her; he later pressed her to marry him and, when she refused, threatened to edit her photographs with AI into objectionable (Navbharat Times, Amar Ujala) or obscene (Patrika) images and post them online. Navbharat Times reports that he edited the pictures with AI, blackmailed her with them and, after her family arranged her engagement elsewhere, reached her fiancé and showed him the edited pictures, after which the families quarrelled and the engagement was broken; Patrika says he went to the fiancé's home and intimidated him into breaking the match; Amar Ujala says he also threatened to kill her and her family and sent edited pictures when her family tried to reason with him, and that when her engagement took place about two months earlier he went to her house and made false allegations about her character in front of the prospective fiancé, after which the engagement broke. She went into severe mental distress and, according to Amar Ujala, had resolved to take a suicidal step before telling her family, who took her to the police. The FIR was registered under the IT Act and sections on criminal intimidation and defamation; police were searching for the accused.","incidentDate":"2026-03-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-05-12","aiSystem":"AI image-editing tool used to alter the complainant's photographs into obscene images (not identified in the reports); Patrika also refers to an AI-made obscene video","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","relationship_disruption","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A college student's photographs were edited with AI into objectionable images used to blackmail her; the accused approached her fiancé (shown the edited images per Navbharat Times; intimidated in person per Patrika and Amar Ujala) and her engagement was broken off; she suffered severe mental distress and, according to Amar Ujala, had resolved on a suicidal step before confiding in her family (her complaint as relayed by police to three Hindi outlets). The AI editing and the coercion are the complainant's allegations in an untried case.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One complainant, the college student whose photographs were edited and who was blackmailed (all three reports). Her fiancé and family are not counted as harmed.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"IN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/state/madhya-pradesh/indore/young-woman-photo-shown-to-her-fianc-engagement-broken-after-youth-in-indore-misuses-ai/articleshow/131043889.cms","primarySourceLabel":"Navbharat Times, 12 May 2026: युवती की फोटो उसके मंगेतर दिखाई, जिसके बाद टूटी सगाई; इंदौर में युवक ने AI का किया गलत इस्तेमाल","firstPublishedAt":"2026-06-15T07:32:37.615682+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:40.5921+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","sextortion","blackmail","non-consensual-imagery","engagement","india","indore","madhya-pradesh","fir","depicted-or-impersonated"]}]}