MUMBAI: A 36-year-old executive from a Bengaluru firm has been arrested for harassing a Mumbai woman he had met on a matrimonial website.
Trouble started when she confronted him after finding out he was married but was pretending to be single. In retaliation, he circulated her phone number among strangers on a web-based messenger app, leading to a barrage of indecent calls and texts.
The woman used to live in the US, but moved to Mumbai after divorce. She registered on a leading matrimonial site, and soon met the executive online. They hit it off, and subsequently exchanged phone numbers and started chatting on WhatsApp. Last month, when the man said he was coming to Mumbai for a fortnight for an office training programme, the two decided to meet.
At this point, she decided to check his profile on Facebook, and was shattered to find photos of him with his wife and children. She took a screenshot, sent it to him and confronted him for cheating. The man immediately blocked her on WhatsApp. She sent him a text calling him a coward.
The man posted her phone number on two groups on Telegram, a web-based messenger app, saying she was a sex worker. Both groups had about 2,000 to 3,000 members. Soon, she started receiving call and texts demanding sex. Taken aback, she told the callers she was approaching the police. Some callers apologised and told her how they had got hold of her number.
An FIR was registered at the Charkop police station on July 24. The police started by checking out the location where the couple had planned to meet. They enquired at hotels in the vicinity on whether the executive was staying with them. One of the hotels replied in the affirmative. He was arrested and booked under the Information Technology Act and is presently in judicial custody.
Trouble started when she confronted him after finding out he was married but was pretending to be single. In retaliation, he circulated her phone number among strangers on a web-based messenger app, leading to a barrage of indecent calls and texts.
The woman used to live in the US, but moved to Mumbai after divorce. She registered on a leading matrimonial site, and soon met the executive online. They hit it off, and subsequently exchanged phone numbers and started chatting on WhatsApp. Last month, when the man said he was coming to Mumbai for a fortnight for an office training programme, the two decided to meet.
At this point, she decided to check his profile on Facebook, and was shattered to find photos of him with his wife and children. She took a screenshot, sent it to him and confronted him for cheating. The man immediately blocked her on WhatsApp. She sent him a text calling him a coward.
The man posted her phone number on two groups on Telegram, a web-based messenger app, saying she was a sex worker. Both groups had about 2,000 to 3,000 members. Soon, she started receiving call and texts demanding sex. Taken aback, she told the callers she was approaching the police. Some callers apologised and told her how they had got hold of her number.
An FIR was registered at the Charkop police station on July 24. The police started by checking out the location where the couple had planned to meet. They enquired at hotels in the vicinity on whether the executive was staying with them. One of the hotels replied in the affirmative. He was arrested and booked under the Information Technology Act and is presently in judicial custody.
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