The wife of a senior television journalist on Wednesday filed an FIR at south Delhi’s Safdarjung Enclave police station after her husband started receiving multiple threat and abusive calls on his per
The wife of a senior television journalist on Wednesday filed an FIR at south Delhi’s Safdarjung Enclave police station after her husband started receiving multiple threat and abusive calls on his personal phone numbers. Some of the calls were received by her and the callers used obscene words, the police said.
A case under Sections 506, 507 (criminal intimidation by anonymous communication), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult woman’s modesty) 354D(stalking) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC was registered on her complaint.
On Wednesday evening, the case was transferred to the special cell for a speedy probe. The journalist’s phone numbers were made public on Tuesday night by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi tourism and water resources minister Kapil Mishra on his Twitter account. In his tweet, Mr Mishra mentioned that he made the journalist’s phone numbers public after his personal number was flashed on the television channel by him.
Mr Mishra, however, deleted the tweet that had the journalist’s phone numbers later.
“We included stalking and sexual harassment sections as the complainant herself received some of the calls and filthy words were used against her,” said a senior police officer. In a letter to the editors’ association, the journalist alleged that after Mr Mishra’s tweet he started receiving threats and abusive calls and his phone has not stopped ringing. Some of the callers even abused his children, he said.
“Kapil Mishra made my both mobile numbers public by tweeting them and suggested AAP workers to call and harass me,” the journalist said in a letter to the editors’ association. He said his channel flashed only those mobile numbers which were already there on the Delhi government’s website.
“This is an attempt to threaten and silence all journalists,” he said in the letter. Mr Mishra said it was the news channel that started it. Mr Mishra said he had tweeted the numbers because the journalist flashed his personal mobile number for hours on his channel.
