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44-year-old tele-stalker goes to jail [Lucknow] [Times of India](Times of India Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Lucknow: A 44 years old bachelor was remanded to 14 days judicial custody and sent to jail on Monday on charges of sending out lewd SMS to young girls and boys who left their cell phone numbers at his desk in his Patrakarpuram, Gomtinagar office. Ghazipur police station in charge inspector Ajeet Singh Chauhan said Narhi resident Rajiv Gurdasani was sent to jail on Monday for sending sexually expletive text messages to a teenage girl, but investigations revealed he used six handsets and more than 200 different SIM cards to harass unsuspecting persons who could not even recall meeting or leaving their numbers with this bald, pot-bellied man wearing old fashioned spectacles. Gurdasani rarely interacted with neighbours. Among his victims were more than 11 females, including college students and married women and three boys. He earned a monthly salary of about Rs 6,000 as receptionist in a private consultancy firm and commuted by bus. The prime incentive for Gurdasani at work was maintaining the visitors' book. On the night of September 18, when Gurdasani bombarded 19-year-old BA first year student of Indiranagar with gross messages, she complained to police. Incoming and outgoing calls between March and September this year by one of Gurdasani's numbers was examined by police. "He also sent obscene messages to a boy who was preparing for civil services in Delhi," says additional superintendent of trans-Gomti area, Dinesh Yadav, who interrogated Gurdasani. He preferred sending text messages and rarely made phone calls. "He used multiple handsets and kept changing SIM cards. It was difficult to single out his permanent number and we had to track six different mobile sets and data of 230 SIM connections," said the inspector who worked on the case. Between 11pm and 4am daily, Gurdasani sent more than 30 lewd messages and immediately switched the phone off. After speaking to various SIM card holders' cops found out that Gurdasani borrowed mobile phones from acquaintances. He stayed with his aunt in an ancestral property in Lucknow while his parents are in Hardwar. A male undergraduate from Amethi said "I visited the consultancy firm in April and had left my number. A week later I started getting offending messages from different numbers. I want to slap the person responsible." (c) 2014 Bennett, Coleman & Company Limited |