An associate professor, teaching at the Central government-run National Institute of Fashion Technology, Taramani, in Chennai, and a state government employee from Avinashi, Coimbatore, working at the Tirupur collectorate, were arrested on Monday by the cyber cops in connection with an online harassment complaint lodged by renowned playback singer and dubbing artiste Chinmayi Sripada with the city police.
Chinmayi had lodged an online harassment complaint against six persons at the city police commissioner’s office Thursday.
“Women should come forward to lodge complaints if they face online harassment. We are now looking into 19 online women harassment complaints.Parents of a plus-two girl had lodged a complaint after she went into depression due to online harassment. Another woman, who rejected a man’s proposal, has been a victim of online harassment by the particular man. Women don’t have to suffer all this torture in silence. If they complain, the police can pick up such tormenters,” said city police commissioner S. George.
The arrested professor was identified as Saravana Kumar Perumal, an architect residing in Madipakkam.
A husband and father of two children, he had allegedly tweeted in a vulgar manner about the singer.
The second accused, Rajan, a state government employee at the Tirupur collectorate, was being brought to Chennai by the cops.
Senior police officers conducted the probe after the singer alleged that six people had posted lewd comments in social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, about her.
During the investigation, it was found that a particular group of individuals was responsible for posting vulgar comments about Chinmayi.
“Saravana Kumar was in the habit of regularly tweeting and many times his tweets were found to be threatening and vulgar in nature.
Call data records on his mobile phone and broadband connection match with the data and time of posting of vulgar tweets about the singer and her mother.
Analysis of his profile on Twitter confirmed that he was using @sharankay as his Twitter name,” a senior police officer said.
His mobile phone, using which he had uploaded the comments, has been seized.
A case has been registered under sections of the IT Act and prevention of woman harassment Act.
The police have identified three more people who had made obscene comments about Chinmayi.