Police officer arrested for sending obscene messages to lady police officer

Mumbai: Mumbai police has arrested an Assistant Police Inspector (API) attached with police control room for allegedly stalking, assaulting and sending obscene messages to a lady police officer from the same police station where he was attached earlier, an official said on Wednesday.

Kurar police station has arrested accused API, Deepak Baburao Deshmukh, late Tuesday night, the official said while adding that Deshmukh was arrested after his woman colleague, a police officer, lodged a complaint against him on Tuesday, based on which an FIR was registered against him for outraging her modesty, stalking, sending obscene messages to her and assaulting her by entering her residence.
The API had been recently transferred to the police control room. During the probe, police found that Deshmukh felt that he was transferred because of the woman police officer, following which he started harassing her, the official said.
However, she lodged the complaint after he entered her residence on Tuesday and assaulted her, he added.
Deshmukh was booked under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 354 (outraging the modesty of woman), 354-D (stalking), 452 (house trespass) and other sections of Information of Technology Act, the official said. (UNI)                 (representative image)