Man held for stalking women on cellphones

Hyderabad: Police arrested a 30-year-old man for making obscene calls to women. The accused, P. Subramanyam, a native of Tadepalli-gudem, West Godavari, used trial and error method to find women and stalk them on phone. Following a complaint from a city-based doctor, police traced Subramanyam. The city police identified six victims, who were stalked by the accused for many days. “He made obscene calls to them, and if they did not answer the calls, he sent abusive messages,” said DCP Pala Raju of the Detective Department. Subramanyam is a married man and father of a child. He runs a business of tractor spare parts. “He must have dialled 150 phone numbers to get the contacts of the six victims we identified,” said a police official.