The accused has allegedly harassed women police personnel for 11 days, 22-year-old youth, who repeatedly called police control room, starting from November 30 to December 10. He has made exactly 222 calls from his mobile phone number.
The Cubbon Park police investigated the case and identified the accused as Vinay, a provision store owner from Ramnagaram. Unable to bear the mental harassment from the unidentified caller lightly. The accused used to make calls to 100 late in the night and spoke to more than 20 female cops in vulgar language.
After complaints from the aggrieved women, senior officials checked the control rooms caller line identification and found all such calls were made from the same mobile number starting from 9964******. And said the officer after the investigations the control room personnel even recorded the transcripts of all 222 calls and put it in a DVD and handed it over to the Cubbon Park police.
“We arrested a 22-year-old provision store owner from Ramanagaram for repeatedly calling our control room and using vulgar, abusive language with women constables who attended the calls. He would always make the calls after dark, but so far, evidence suggests he was not always under the influence of alcohol. Confirming the arrest,”Sandeep Patil, Deputy Commissioner of police (Central) said.
Sandeep Patil , “This arrest should serve as a warning to other trouble-makers who believe they can make one- or two- second prank calls to the control room and get away with it. We can easily trace anyone who calls us from anywhere, be it from a landline or a mobile; and we will initiate strict action against such characters.”