June 23, 2010
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Cops make arrest under rarely used section of IT Act
Dayanand Kamath
Dayanand Kamath
Before sending a lewd joke to someone you know, pause to think. You can get arrested.
The Matunga police on Tuesday used a rarely-used section of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000, to arrest a law student who was allegedly sending lewd SMSes to his father's colleague.
"Dharmesh Sampat, 23, who is in the second year of LLB in a South Mumbai college, was booked under section 67 of the act," said senior inspector Sunil Deshmukh of the Matunga police station.
During interrogation, Sampat told the police his father, Arunkumar,68, has had a business dispute with Jigar Thakkar, 33, for a few years. To take revenge, Dharmesh used to send the SMSes to Thakkar.
Between January 19 and 23, Thakkar, a resident of Bhau Daji Road, Matunga, received several obscene SMSes, Fed up, he complained to the police later the month.
The police, with the help of Thakkar's mobile service provider, tracked the SMSes to Sampat's cell phone. A case was registered on April 10.
The Matunga police on Tuesday used a rarely-used section of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000, to arrest a law student who was allegedly sending lewd SMSes to his father's colleague.
"Dharmesh Sampat, 23, who is in the second year of LLB in a South Mumbai college, was booked under section 67 of the act," said senior inspector Sunil Deshmukh of the Matunga police station.
During interrogation, Sampat told the police his father, Arunkumar,68, has had a business dispute with Jigar Thakkar, 33, for a few years. To take revenge, Dharmesh used to send the SMSes to Thakkar.
Between January 19 and 23, Thakkar, a resident of Bhau Daji Road, Matunga, received several obscene SMSes, Fed up, he complained to the police later the month.
The police, with the help of Thakkar's mobile service provider, tracked the SMSes to Sampat's cell phone. A case was registered on April 10.
Sampat, who was arrested from his Thane residence, was released on bail of Rs15,000 by the Kurla metropolitan magistrate's court.
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