India, Oct. 27 -- A 19-year-old college student from Old Faridabad's Baselwa Colony fell into a deadly trap after two unidentified individuals allegedly hacked his phone and began blackmailing him with AI-generated morphed photos and videos of his sisters, police said. The sequence that ended in his death on Saturday evening began nearly ten days earlier, when the suspects first contacted him through a messaging app.

According to investigators at the NIT police station, the student, a B.Com undergraduate at a local college, had been receiving repeated threats from the two suspects, who claimed to possess digitally altered visuals of him and his sisters. The accused allegedly demanded Rs.20,000 in exchange for not circulating the deepfake...