New Delhi, May 22 -- Ritu was neither a hacker nor a criminal by trade. But the 26-year-old woman from Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh and living in Delhi with her husband found herself caught in a web of her own making - a fake Instagram account, a stolen identity, and a digital trap she designed to catch a ghost from her husband's past.
It all began with a photograph. One group photo, to be precise. Shared casually by her husband sometime after their 2023 wedding, the image showed him surrounded by friends-nothing out of the ordinary. But for her, one face in that frame stood out. A woman. Something about her lingered in the wife's mind.
Her husband followed the lady on Instagram. That was enough to flip a switch. A quiet suspicion turned into ...