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WhatsApp continues to wreak havoc in. Weeks after a job seeker fromwas lynched on the suspicion of being a child lifter, a former employee of a tour and travel agency managed to get the telephone numbers of all his female colleagues and started harassing them, seeking sexual favours. Although he spent only around a month in the company, the pervert managed to get all the numbers from – you guessed it – the office WhatsApp group.Arun was finally nabbed on Saturday when he came to meet one of the women he had been harassing. She, along with four of her colleagues, decided to lay a trap for Arun once they had a fair idea about the pervert’s identity. (Arun had been using two anonymous numbers to call the women and never gave out his real name).Arun had joined the firm in April on the recommendation of one of his friends (he did not even spare the friend’s wife and sent herchats too). He was soon added to the office WhatsApp group which had around 200 members. Within a month, Arun quit his job and most people did not even know that he existed.Soon after, 26-year-old Sanjana (name changed) started getting messages on her WhatsApp from an unknown number. “The messages were obscene and the person sending them wanted to have sex chat. When I warned him and blocked his number, he started messaging with another number. After a couple of days I learnt that similar messages were being sent to my colleagues too. But we didn’t know who the man was,” she told Bangalore Mirror.Arun probably got emboldened and started downloading porn videos from the web and started attaching them to the messages.“He would make video calls showing me his bare body. He would always cover his face and insisted on meeting me; he said he could rent a room so that we could spend some time together,” she added.He made a similar call to Ramya (name changed). “He would make video calls in the night and send voice and text messages during the day. Once we got to know that the same person was sending the messages to all our colleagues, we brought it to the notice of the company management.”But that wasn’t the end of Arun.“Once five of us were travelling in a car and he was sending messages to all five of us simultaneously. We also noticed that one of our former colleagues used to follow us after office hours. That is when we were sure that Arun was sending the messages and stalking us,” Ramya told BM.Sick of the continuous flow of messages, the five women decided to entice the man and catch him red-handed.“Some of us started responding to him so that he would reveal his identity and agree to meet us,” Sanjana said.On Saturday, Sanjana invited Arun to meet him near the office. As she was walking towards the bus stand, Arun accosted her and said he wanted to marry her. When Sanjana refused, he said that he would abduct her and force her to tie the knot. This was the cue that her five female colleagues – and some male ones – were waiting for.“All the women and men surrounded him and beat him black and blue before handing him over to his family,” Sanjana said.Chandra Layout police booked a case of criminal force on women to outrage modesty of woman, word gesture or act intended to insult modesty of woman, and intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace against Arun. He has been remanded in judicial custody and sent to Parappana Agrahara central jail.WhatsApp is taking him places, after all.