The Bandra unit of Mumbai crime branch has arrested a 29-year-old particular person for allegedly harassing random females by sending obscene images to them on their WhatsApp. The accused has been identified as Mohammad Irfan Shaikh.
On November 19-20, a married lady from Andheri who operates at a contact centre received at least 11 obscene photographs and messages on her WhatsApp. The lady blocked the quantity just before approaching the Amboli police. Following the complaint an offence was registered below the Indian Penal Code (IPC) section for sexual harassment (354A) and below the relevant sections of Information Technology act.
The crime branch unit 9 started their parallel probe and quickly traced the accused to Jangaon in Telangana from exactly where he was later arrested. The accused operates for a ladies garment shop which puts garment stall at numerous fairs across the nation. “Due to his job profile the accused was continuously on the move from one state to another. He is originally from Varanasi, while he procured the SIM card from Gulbarga in Karnataka, due to which police could never reached to him,” mentioned Nandakumar Gopale, senior inspector of crime branch unit 9.
While functioning for a garment dealer, the accused employed to note down the numbers of these people today who known as their stall for inquiry. First he employed to verify their show image on their WhatsApp and following obtaining a woman’s photo on the DP he employed to harrass them by bombarding them with obscene images and messages, added a crime branch officer.
During questioning, Shaikh has confessed of harassing many other females similarly. We have located many females numbers from his WhatsApp chats who had been harassed by Shaikh, mentioned a crime branch officer. We are attractive to females to method either crime branch or to police station nearby in case they had been harasses by him.
Shaikh was later handed more than to Amboli police for additional investigation.