Stalker sends food to woman’s work place, makes her pay for it

MUMBAI: The Mumbai Police crime branch unit 11 recently traced and arrested a man who allegedly sexually harassed a married woman by making innumerable blank calls to her and her husband and also sending abusive messages to them over the past nine months. When all else failed, the accused would order food from different hotels and get it delivered to the complainant’s work place — without paying for it.

The arrested accused, who is 45 years old, used to work as a housekeeper in Borivli.

Police said the accused, since December 2017, used to make blank calls to the complainant innumerable times including during wee hours. In February this year, he started sending abusive messages to her and her husband.

In April, he started calling on her landline number of her work place and when any one else took the call, he used to abuse them and abuse the victim as well.

The complainant and her husband tried calling back on the phone number but the accused diverted their phone calls. After the accused started sending abusive and obscene

messages to the complainant and her husband, the couple filed a non-cognisable complaint against him earlier this year. Following this, the phone calls had stopped. But the calls and messages resumed this month.

On August 14, the couple lodged a police complaint. A FIR was registered under Section 354 (d) for stalking, 509 for insulting the modesty of a woman of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 67A of the IT Act for transmission of obscene material. The accused was arrested a few days ago.