Eve-Teasers Are Now Harassing Girls By ‘Sexting’: Police

Hyderabad: Though the police are taking every possible step to curb eve-teasing in the city by the deployment of ‘SHE’ teams, Cyberabad East Commissionerate police said on Thursday, the eve-teasers in the city are now bypassing face to face or physical harassment of girls and women and are resorting to tease the fairer sex by ‘sexting’ after obtaining their mobile numbers furtively.

The police said SHE Teams received such 14 complaints against rogues and eve-teasers in the city and eight out of 12 cases were complained through its WhatsApp number in last week. All the 14 eve-teasers were given a counseling at the Cyberabad Commissionerate on Thursday, they said.

Any girl or woman facing eve-teasing or obscene phone calls can call SHE Teams on 9490617111, police said.

Police briefed on a few of such cases registered in the limits of Cyberabad East Commissionerate in the last seven days.

--> MD Gayaz Bhasha, a resident of Nacharam, was teasing a girl who used to park her bike daily at her friend’s place on her way to college. He started teasing her by giving love letters, gifts and other articles putting on her bike. He also forced her to love him on phone. She approached SHE team by lodging a complaint thru its WhatsApp number.

--> A married woman complained SHE teams of harassment from an engineering student making advances in vulgar manner and asking her for a live-in relationship with her two children by dumping her husband.

--> A complaint was filed by a girl who faced harassment from her colleague Nagesh who commutes with her in their office cab. The complaint stated that Nagesh threatened her by forcing her to love him. He also tried to create obstacles to stop her marriage.

--> A landlord from Saroornagar approached SHE Team and complained against his tenant Vinay attempting to rape his daughter while she was alone in the house.

ACP Snehitha urged the woman in the city, who are facing eve-teasing, sexual harassment or sexting, can come up confidently and avail their WhatsApp number to complain in order to put a checkmate to such rogues and eve-teasers.