58-year-old maligns women with currency notes ‘for fun’

Rajkot: A bizarre case of harassing married women has come to light in Jasdan town of Rajkot district with the detention of a 58-year-old man who had a penchant for throwing genuine currency notes on which he wrote about the extra-marital affairs of women.
Locals said that in the last one-and-a-half months, several residents had found such currency notes near their doors. Fed up with the harassment, residents approached a local nagar sevak who took up the issue with police.
“He used to throw real notes of Rs 10, Rs 20 and Rs 30 denominations into the houses. On majority of the notes, he would write that the woman of the family had an affair with a neighbour. This even led to rifts between husbands and wives in some cases,” said Jasdan police.
Locals claimed that such harassment was going on for the last five years but it had increased over the last one-and-a-half months.
On scanning the CCTV footage, police identified the man, who is a farmer.
One of the women, who was part of the group that gave a representation to the police, said: “He used to slander married women by writing that they had affairs with other men in the locality. The notes would catch anyone’s attention and therefore he used them. We were fed up with such harassment as it caused misunderstandings in many households.”
He lives in the same locality as the victims and knows every person’s name. He was detained under CrPC Section 151 (arrest to prevent commission of cognizable offence) and allowed to go later.
During questioning, the man did not give any reason why he resorted to such slandering but police asked his family to get his psychiatric evaluation done.
“We sternly told him to refrain from this act and told his family members to get his psychiatric counselling done,” said a police officer.