Firoz.T.Totanawala The Bangalore Metro Reporter MOBILE MENACE

FIROZ.T.TOTANAWALA 

 THE BANGALORE METRO REPORTER

 MOBILE MENACE 

 Savitri, a 24 year old married lady joined Nemmadi Mane Trust, a social organization at Tumkur, as an office assistant. She was provided with a mobile phone with number 9241006982 by Nemmadi Mane Trust for office use. But, the Mobile seems to have made her life hell as she started getting obscene & vulgar messages on her mobile. She immediately informed her employer, who decided to lodge a police complaint which was filed at Tumkur on dated 01-09-2010. 

Tumkur Sub Inspector, Mr. Dinesh Patil after receiving the complaint started his investigation and found out that the Sim Card number 8867158933 from which the obscene messages were sent was purchased on the name of Anil Kumar, No.134, Bagalkot Bagalkot Dist. However, the police were not able to trace the address, said Nagaraj, the Managing Trustee of Nemmadi Mane. 

 Further the nasty messages continued and in fact increased. Then, Savitri’s husband called up to the number and asked him about who is he and why is he sending obscene messages to his wife. To his shock he was threatened and then he too started getting vulgar messages from him. Later, Savitri’s relative, a 65 years old lady decided to call and speak to the person and request him to stop sending lewd and threatening messages to Savitri and her husband. 

 More shockingly, even she too started getting the messages on her mobile from which she had called up. Now more than 600 messages have been send from the said number and they also sometime gets threatening calls on their respective mobile numbers, added Nagaraj. 

 When TBMR spoke to the Sub Inspector of Tumkur, Mr. Dinesh Patil on 14th Sept 2010 about the case, he confirmed that yes they were not able to trace him because of the incomplete address & the person from the above number only called up matrimonial offices. He had also called up to Belgaum from the same sim number and threatened the lady working there and sent her obscene /vulgar messages. How ever, since he was not in the station, he could not provide us with more details on this. 

 While we can understand the mental trauma of Savitri and her husband, the most terrorizing is the fact of not tracing the Sim card holder. The breech or security lapse is so common in our country. If any man can take up a Sim card and use it to harass women, it is not a wonder that anti social elements also obtain mobile numbers and then use it for disturbing peace and harmony in the country.