New Delhi, July 16
The cyber cell of Delhi Police nabbed a stalker from Maharashtra on Wednesday, for harassing and defaming a woman by posting her photographs with offensive comments on social media platforms and also writing her phone numbers on public places, including toilet walls.
The accused, identified as Yasin Sheikh, was nabbed from Pune, based on the complaint of a 38-year-old woman at North District police station.
According to the victim, the accused was harassing and torturing her by uploading her pictures on social media and writing derogatory comments.
She also claimed that the accused took out her mobile number from her Instagram account and inscribed it at various public places, including the walls of toilets, railway platforms in Pune.
She also alleged that the accused was creating multiple Instagram accounts with her name and uploading videos with her mobile number, along with derogatory remarks like "Call girl service".
This caused her huge mental trauma as she was receiving phone calls from multiple unknown numbers, with nasty requests.
Following the complaints, a police team scanned the call records of the accused's mobile number and also IP addresses to track him down.