Aurangabad: Man held for making obscene calls to women

AURANGABAD: The crime branch of the city police nabbed a 22-year-old man for making obscene calls to scores of women in the past several months.
The accused - hailing from Majalgaon tehsil of Beed district and currently pursuing Bachelor of Computer Science from a city-based college - already has a non-cognizable offence registered against him with Vedantnagar police station in 2018 for a similar act.
According to police, the accused is well aware of the police's way of reaching out to the suspects using technical surveillance and to avoid being caught, he had obtained a sim card using forged documents. He even had reserved a separate cell phone for using the sim card so that the police could not reach him.
The accused would be active post-midnight and use the sim and mobile phone by randomly dialling mobile numbers. He would save every number on which a woman would answer the call.
"The accused would even use social media platforms to obtain phone numbers of gullible women or girls who put out their numbers along with their other details. Every night, the accused would change his location and make obscene calls to the women," a police officer said.
The accused ran out of luck after he started bothering the kin of a city-based woman politician who reached out to the crime branch and lodged a written complaint. After the crime branch obtained the call details of the accused and started tracking him down, it came to fore that every number he dialed belonged to a woman or a girl.
Crime branch inspector Madhukar Sawant said, "Considering his acts of bothering women and girls, we suspect him to be abnormal."