MUMBAI, June 28 -- The 25-year-old security guard arrested earlier this month from Ballari district in Karnataka for stalking multiple women operated over 100 email accounts and 11 Instagram accounts in the name of women who had rejected his advances, Dahisar police have found. The guard, Shubham Kumar Manoj Prasad Singh, shared morphed pornographic pictures of the women on social media and email and coerced them to strip during video calls and send him their nude photographs. He also had over 13,500 photographs of women stored on his mobile phone and police are trying to contact the women whom he had allegedly harassed and seeking more details about his activities from social media platforms, police officers aware of the matter told Hindustan Times. Singh, a native of Kausuli village in Bhagalpur district of Bihar, had completed a diploma in computers from Delhi 16 and was trained in graphic design, officers from Dahisar police station said. He wanted to work in the information technology sector in Bengaluru, but as he was unable to secure a job, he joined an industrial estate in Sandur in Ballari, working as a security guard, they added. Singh was arrested on June 6 and is under judicial custody. An officer who is part of the investigating team referred to him as a "pervert". "Singh would send friend requests to many women and once anyone accepted the request, he would chat with them for some time before asking them to take off their clothes during video calls," the officer told HT. "If they refused, he would take their photos from their social media accounts and use his computer skills to morph the images with pornographic content and post the morphed photos on fake social media accounts operated by him." Singh portrayed the women as prostitutes and escorts in his social media posts and made vulgar comments about them, the officer noted. "Many women would get back in touch with him after such instances and ask for their morphed images to be deleted. In return, he would ask them to share their nude photos or pose semi-nude during video calls, which several women complied with to save themselves from public embarrassment," the officer said. Singh's bluff was called after a 19-year-old college student from Kandivali whom he had allegedly harassed online complained about him. In her complaint, the student said that someone had created an Instagram ID in her name using her photographs and published vulgar and obscene content via the account. The user had also tried to blackmail her by using the content, the student had said in her complaint, based on which a first information report (FIR) was registered on January 31. The police started the probe by following the online trail and writing to Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to get details about the fake accounts that were used to harass the student. After persistent efforts over six months, they identified Singh and tracked him down to Ballari. On June 6, a team led by police officers Ankush Dandge and Shraddha Patil arrested Singh from the premises of the company where he was working as a security guard and brought him to Mumbai. They subsequently scanned his mobile phone and found nearly 13,500 photos of women stored on his handset. They also found that he had created over 100 email accounts and 11 Instagram accounts using names of women whom he had tried to befriend and who had rejected his overtures, much to the surprise of senior police officers like inspector Ashok Honmane from the Dahisar police station and deputy commissioner of police Mahesh Chimte. "Many of the women targeted by Singh have refused to come forward and lodge a formal complaint, claiming their issues had already been settled and they didn't want to pursue the matter further due to perceived threat of defamation," said Dandge. Several women whom Singh had harassed had deleted their social media accounts altogether and could not be contacted, Dandge noted. "We are trying to get more information from social media platforms about the women he had victimised," he said....