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Telecom company manager held for sexually harassing woman [Lucknow] [Times of India](Times of India Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Lucknow: A corporate employee was booked on Saturday for allegedly sexually harassing a woman. Arif Siddiqui, 27, works for a leading private telecom company as sales manager. He was picked by police on Saturday from his office in Vibhuti Khand. Siddiqui was acquainted with a married woman but their relationship had got strained. Soon after, Siddiqui began sending to her sexually expletive chats, messages, videos and sexual content over the phone. When she threatened to report the matter to the police, Siddiqui passed on her number to his friends. The woman then girl started getting calls from unknown numbers and got worried about her safety. She reported the matter to Women's Powerline 1090. The Powerline staff warned the group harassing her girl and they gradually stepped back from troubling her. "But, when the counselling team called up Siddiqui, he misbehaved with them and hurled abuses," said deputy inspector general Navniet Sekera, who supervises the work of Powerline. The complaint was made earlier this week and despite Powerline's warnings, Siddiqui continued to send obscene videos on the woman's phone through a popular mobile application. The Powerline staff gathered Siddiqui's details and a trap was laid outside Shalimar Titanium building in Vibhuti Khand on Saturday where Siddiqui's office is located. Out on a break, Siddiqui was picked up by cops and detained at Vibhuti Khand police station outside the buidling. Station officer Devendra Dubey said IPC section 294 (obscene acts) had been pressed against Siddiqui. The woman expressed inability to submit a formal complaint as she was worried about apprehensions from her husband and in-laws. Sub-inspector Maruti Upadhyay became the complainant in the case. Police recovered the Samsung smartphone Siddiqui had used to send the messages besides another mobile. Siddiqui's father had died some years ago and he stayed with his mother in Chandganj. (c) 2014 Bennett, Coleman & Company Limited |