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Cyber crime related to sharing of photo without permission


14-Feb-2023 (In Criminal Law)
Sir,one of my female friend send me a decent photo of her but mistakenly I shared that photo to one of my facebook friend who is also a female. Sir I wanted to know that if that female friend misuses that photo or forward that photo to someone else and might that person also misuses that photo. In that case if the victim came to know about it and she files a complaint. Then in that situation I also will be in trouble. Please let me all the sections and ipc.
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well, of course on that situations you will be in trouble. Now your interested matter is about the sections ipc, it absolutely depends on the types of offence or allegations alleged by victim . It may comes under various sec. of ipc & other acts also like extortion, sexual harassment, pocoso, cyber crime, outrage of her modesty etc.
plz don't misuse trust for any person.
All the best

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Someone on facebook misused my friend without her permission. Her account is created on 2014 and changed my friend picture on fake id. What should I do in this case?

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