Mumbai: On receiving over 200 obscene calls and messages on her phone from unknown numbers in the last one month, a Nalasopara housewife approached the police. The cops tracked down three of the callers, who confessed that they had found the mobile phone number scribbled on the wall of the men's toilet at Borivli railway station. The 35-year-old woman, in her complaint, said that she had reasons to suspect her estranged husband as their divorce case is being heard in the Bandra family court. The Tulinj police are questioning the husband, but his involvement has not been proved yet.The husband, who till recently worked with a multinational company and often travelled to the US and the UK, is currently unemployed.

The complainant had left her husband's home near Crawford Market, where he lived with his parents, and moved to Nalasopara with her two daughters and a son eight months ago. In December, she started getting obscene calls and messages. Initially , she ignored the calls, but when she received at least a dozen such calls a day, even at odd hours, she decided to take action.“By the time she filed a complaint, she had received over 200 obscene calls and messages,“ said assistant police inspector Rakesh Sakharkar. .

The police managed to track down three of the callers and recorded their statements. The men admitted to having made the calls after seeing the number on the toilet wall at Borivli station. They will be charged under IPC Section 507 for criminal intimidation by anonymous com munication, said a cop.

The police sent photographs of the scribbled number to handwriting experts, and erased it from the loo.While the husband has denied writing the number on the toilet wall, the police have not ruled out the possibility of him asking someone else to do so.The police are questioning several people who have the complainant's phone number, including her in-laws.

The woman had earlier filed a case under IPC Section 498A for cruelty against her husband and in-laws.

(Names withheld to protect identity)



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