KOLKATA: Police arrested one person on Thursday night and recovered two mobile phones, which belonged to two women professors — one of them the head of department of English and the other her colleague from the same department — of a reputable south Kolk-ata college On March 15, a man had walked into the staff room of the college, stolen the mobile phones of the two victims, and from there sent vulgar and threat messages to their phone and social media contacts. The entire operation was completed within the first three hours of the theft, leaving little time for the victims to react. Police said the person arrested had merely bought the mobile phones and was not aware about the crime.“By the time the profe-ssors managed to block their numbers, the damage was already done,” said an officer from south division. “We have fixed up the identity of the actual thief and the person to whom he had sold the mobiles . We are looking for a gang that worked with a typical modus operandi. Once we nab these two men, we can join all the missing dots,” he said.According to the complaint filed by the college authorities, a copy of which is with TOI, the accused had entered the college about two weeks ago around 2.30pm on the pretext that he had some work at the accounts departments. The guards were convinced and the accused walked up to the first floor, where the staff room of the English department is located, and stole the two mobile phones along with some valuables.What followed, though, left the college administration clueless even as the secretary of the governing body rushed to the local police station. “Several vulgar messages and posts were subsequently posted — especially on Facebook — on behalf of the victims. The duo had to rush to block the SIM cards after being alerted by their friends and kin. We fear that among those who saw those objectionable posts were students — both former and present — besides family, relatives and friends,” said a college governing body official.The college launched a parallel investigation along with cops and traced the accused through CCTV footage. “We identified the man, who was wearing a full-shirt and a jeans and was carrying a bag on his shoulders. We shared the footage with the police and the detective department,” said a college official.Police said that both the phones were recovered — one from Kolkata and the other from Midnapore.“The CCTV footage was helpful. We are questioni-ng the arrested person. We believe that there is more to this incident than what the ac-cused so far has owned up,” said an officer.

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