PUNE: The Bund Garden police on Sunday registered an offence against unidentified men for calling on the Pune police control room (PCR) number and talking to women constables in lewd language after identifying the numbers of the four cellphones used in the act.An officer of the Bund Garden police told TOI that the callers had been harassing the women police at the control room for the past two months. “They used to call on the police control room number and talk in lewd language after finding a woman on the other end,” the officer said.Initially, the women police constables ignored the calls. “They had even told the callers that an offence would be registered against them. Still, they would continue to talk with the police women in lewd language,” the officer said, adding that one of the police women lodged the complaint frustrated by such calls.A 37-year-old police constable attached to the Pune police’s control room lodged the complaint. The callers have been booked under sections 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions) of the Indian Penal Code The police have identified the four cellphone numbers the callers used for making the calls. “We are yet to arrest them,” the officer said.In November 2016, the Azad Maidan police in Mumbai had registered a case against an unidentified person for making 125 phone calls to the police’s main control room. The suspect passed lewd remarks at women personnel and abused policemen. Investigations revealed that the phone was registered in a man’s name at Forozpur in Punjab.

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