Teacher receives obscene messages

A case was registered against an unknown person for sending a vulgar message to a teacher in Tulinj area of Nalasopara, on Sunday.

The 32-year-old teacher resides at Achole Cross Road, with her husband and eight-year-old son. According to police officials, the teacher received a text from one Ashish Trivedi on Facebook messenger. At the time she thought that the sender was one of her students so she replied to him, but later the accused started sending her vulgar texts on the social media site’s app, after which she went to the police station and lodged a case.

Confirming the development, police inspector Prakash Birajdar told The Asian Age, As per the profile of the accused, he is a Madhya Pradesh resident, and we are verifying the facts. As of now a complaint has been registered under the Section 509 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and 354D (Stalking) of the Indian Penal Code.

According to the police official, the complainant has a Facebook and a Gmail account, which she accesses on her cellphone. On April 18, around 10 am when she was sitting in a school office, she received at text saying ‘good morning’ on Facebook messenger. The complainant avoided replying, but again on April 20, she received a text from the same person. After which she replied, after which the accused started sending her vulgar messages.

After receiving a few vulgar texts, the teacher told him not to text her, and threatened to inform the police, but the accused kept on messaging her. “The complainant also stated that the accused had started sending her vulgar texts at midnight too,” said an official.