<p class="title">Mumbai, PTI: A 32-year-old man was arrested from West Bengal for allegedly harassing a former cricketer's 20-year-old daughter over the phone, the police said on Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The accused, identified as Devkumar Mitti, allegedly made several calls to the landlline number of the cricketer, a resident of suburban Bandra, in December last year, a police official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mitti would tell the cricketer's domestic help who attended the calls that he will kidnap the young woman and marry her, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the police, the accused used to tell the domestic help that he had seen the cricketer's daughter on television and would pass lewd comments about her.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As per preliminary investigation, Mitti, a school dropout, got the cricketer's landline number from the internet, a police officer said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A case was registered a few days ago after the cricketer's manager approached the police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">During the investigation, the police traced the caller's location to West Bengal and dispatched a team that arrested him on Saturday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Confirming the development, senior police officer Paramjit Singh Dahiya said Mitti was picked from the district of Midnapore.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was being brought to Mumbai.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mitti has been booked under sections 354 D (offence of stalking), 507 (criminal intimidation by anonymous communication), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the IPC, Dahiya said, adding that further investigation is on.</p>
<p class="title">Mumbai, PTI: A 32-year-old man was arrested from West Bengal for allegedly harassing a former cricketer's 20-year-old daughter over the phone, the police said on Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The accused, identified as Devkumar Mitti, allegedly made several calls to the landlline number of the cricketer, a resident of suburban Bandra, in December last year, a police official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mitti would tell the cricketer's domestic help who attended the calls that he will kidnap the young woman and marry her, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the police, the accused used to tell the domestic help that he had seen the cricketer's daughter on television and would pass lewd comments about her.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As per preliminary investigation, Mitti, a school dropout, got the cricketer's landline number from the internet, a police officer said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A case was registered a few days ago after the cricketer's manager approached the police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">During the investigation, the police traced the caller's location to West Bengal and dispatched a team that arrested him on Saturday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Confirming the development, senior police officer Paramjit Singh Dahiya said Mitti was picked from the district of Midnapore.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was being brought to Mumbai.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mitti has been booked under sections 354 D (offence of stalking), 507 (criminal intimidation by anonymous communication), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the IPC, Dahiya said, adding that further investigation is on.</p>
