Ludhiana, May 20 -- The Ludhiana police on Tuesday booked a shoe trader for allegedly morphing photographs of his wife's seven-year-old niece and threatening to circulate the objectionable images following a matrimonial dispute with his wife.

The accused Gurwinder Singh, alias Prinkle, of Chandigarh Road has been booked under Section 79 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for insulting the modesty of a woman, Sections 67 and 67(A) of the Information Technology Act, provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, and Section 25 of the Arms Act, police said.

According to the complaint filed by the victim's father, his sister had married the accused, a shoe trader, in 2024. However, following matrimonial discord...