Chennai: Chennai city cyber crime cell says that on an average it receives 50 complaints of cyber stalking on social network sites and as well as on mobile phones. But not many want to take the legal course of action. “At the cyber cell we receive at least 2 complaints a day. The number has gone up compared to last year,” noted a senior city police official.
Most of the victims are college girls or software professionals. “Even we receive complaint from medical college students. But 99 per cent of them prefer not to proceed beyond complaint because they don’t want to make it public,” the official noted. The police noted that when complainants request not to take legal action, they agree to it. “We pick the stalkers and let them go after warning them seriously.
But if the same suspects are picked up again they will be certainly sent to jail. Not that we want to book them in the first instance itself, but the complainants turn sympathetic towards the suspects because in majority cases they will be known to each other,” the official added. The police also notes all the complaints are genuine in nature.
“The suspect sometimes may make it look like that there nothing big in sending a message to girl known to him. But then we will have tell him that he has no right to send such lewd messages to girls and harass them,” officer added.
