A youth from Saki Naka has been arrested by Mumbai crime branch sleuths who had an unusual habit of making obscene calls to female staffers posted in the city police control room. As per the crime branch, it had become important to get hold of the youth as within the span of eight months he had made over 2,400 calls to the control room.

The arrested person has been identified as Faiyaz Ismail Shaikh, a resident of Saki Naka. According to the police, on October 29, around 9 pm, an unknown person had made a phone call to the police control room number 100 and indulged in obscene conversation with a female cop over the phone. The call was made from a mobile number.

The said female staffer then lodged a complaint in this regard with the Azad Maidan police station and a case was registered under section 509 of the Indian Penal Code for word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman.

"Even after the case got registered, the man continued to make obscene calls at the control room. Since the local police station was unable to get hold of the caller, we took out details of the mobile phone number from which the call was made and on the basis of the details we got hold of Shaikh," said an officer from Unit I of crime branch.

"It was important to get hold of the accused had had made as many as 2,407 such calls to the control room from March till October 29, 2015 and spoke in vulgar manner with female police constables," said additional commissioner of police crime KMM Prasanna.

When the police asked Shaikh why he had made so many calls to the control, he said he did it just for the sake of fun and pleasure. Shaikh's custody was later handed over to Azad Maidan police for further probe.