On 6 February, Nisha*, a journalist from Lucknow, received a call from an unknown number at 11:05 pm. Truecaller displayed ‘Aryan Matina’ as the caller.



Since she did not know who the caller was, she decided not to pick up. Almost instantly, she got a notification on her Facebook profile: a friend request from a guy named, ‘Aryan Matina’.

Without much ado, she blocked him on Facebook and his number on her phone. Within a few minutes she got another call from an unknown number. The same name flashed on Truecaller. She blocked it yet again.

This, however, was not going to be a one-off incident. It was just the beginning of repeated cyberstalking that is still ongoing.