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The city-based agent used to send SMSes to Sneha
Realtor held for stalking Tamil actress
Bangalore: DH News Service
A 35-year-old city-based realtor was arrested in Chennai on Saturday, after he was caught sending indecent text messages to Tamil actress Sneha.
Yelahanka resident N Raghavendra, a BCom graduate and a realtor, was arrested from a five star hotel in Chennai.
Police said Raghavendra had been stalking the actress for the last six months. He managed to get her cell phone number, and sent her text messages professing his admiration for her and her work. Gradually, Raghavendra began saying that he liked the actress and loved her. “My life without you is incomplete. I cannot rest until I marry you,” he would say in his SMSes. He would send more than 100 such messages everyday.
Initially, the actress ignored them and did not respond. When hundreds of messages landed in Sneha’s inbox in a day, she got furious and decided to warn him. Later, she changed her SIM card.
Within a few days, Raghavendra managed to get hold of her new number also and repeated the same. Sneha warned him that she would lodge a complaint with the police. Raghavendra ignored her warning and continued to send her SMSes. Finally, she gave a written complaint to the Police Commissioner of Chennai and requested to put an end to the menace.
The case was referred to the Chennai Cyber Crime police. They kept a track of the SMSes and located his whereabouts. Police arrested Raghavendra from a five star hotel at Tyagarajnagar in Chennai.
He has been remanded to judicial custody for 15 days.
Irrespective of the ethical issue involved, I was wondering if it is legal in India for the police to snoop in on anyone phone, cell phone, and mail communication without a proper warrant from a judge. We read about a lot of these activities where the "police kept watch over the calls"! Is it really legal? Besides, the messages as described in the article could be considered harassments, but are they really indecent?
Vatal and Narayana Gowda, you can start protesting and deflating tyres again, see Tamil Nadu person is again involved in causing bad name to Karnataka.
One message or two about liking of the actress was o.k. and no issues but when 100 smses was send and continuance of the same in the changed mobile no. even after the warning is really punishable. I remember in my school days I used to make lot of pen friends whom I have not spoken to or met ever or seen mostly girls even including the foreigners and it was at that time in 1983 a wide practice and somehow that practice came up after my college days when I started feeling lonely and tried to make pen friendship by sending letter to a girl in Kolkata, Belghoria - a simple letter How do you do? what you want to become in life? etc. but somehow the girl got offended and asked for explanation for sending the letter. I said politely sorry. And the thought came if anybody is not interested in friendship I am also not saleable.
