The Delhi Police has arrested a 31-year-old person for sending obscene, vulgar and abusive messages to innocent girls and women in Delhi and NCR for a long time, police said.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, North-West district, Vijay Singh said the accused has been identified as Mohammed Khalid, who runs a bag shop in Sadar Bazar along with his father, has been tormenting women and girls who were living in perpetual agony and trauma due to the person. “The marital life of some of them was on the verge of collapse as their husbands had reportedly started having doubts over their fidelity. In an estimate he has sent SMS and WhatsApp to more than 1,500 girls across Delhi & NCR,” said the DCP
last week, a woman from Ashok Vihar lodged a complaint that she has been receiving obscene, vulgar, abusive messages on her mobile phone from two unknown mobile numbers and when she contacted the caller over telephone, he threatened her of dire consequences.
During preliminary investigations the details pertaining to the mobile numbers from which the complainant was getting obscene messages were obtained. It revealed that these numbers were obtained on fake documents.
A police team was formed and the accused was nabbed from his shop.
When confronted, he tried to bluff the police but later on confessed to his offence. At his instance, two mobile phones were recovered which were used by him in the commission of the crime.
During the analysis of data of recovered mobile phones, police found that the accused had sent such obscene, vulgar, abusive messages and video clips through SMS and WhatsApp to more than 1,500 females in and around Delhi and all such obscene messages and clips were found stored in the recovered mobile phones.
“On questioning the accused disclosed that he used to call any number randomly and if the call was picked by a female, he used to save that number. Then he used to see the picture profile of that particular number through Whatsapp and if he liked the picture, then he used to send SMS or WhatsApp to that particular number,” said the police official.
The accused was taken for 2 days police remand.