16 July,2010 07:35 AM IST | | Imran Gowhar
Rejected customer support executive steals team leader's phone to make bomb hoax calls and send lewd messages to girls working in the call centre
Upset after a call centre rejected him, 22-year-old Sunil Kumar stole the phone of a team leader at the company and used it to make bomb hoax calls to the police control room.
Said Cubbon Park Sub-Inspector RM Ajai, "I discovered that the mobile number used by Kumar to make hoax calls to the police control room belonged to a 22-year-old girl, a team leader at a call center on Residency Road. When we contacted her, we learnt that the phone had been stolen," Ajai said.
Meanwhile, Kumar took to sending lewd messages to some female staffers from the stolen mobile phone and even called some of the girls.
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"I approached the service provider who informed me that the calls were being made from the Kamraj Road-Commercial Street area.
When I asked the call centre they had employees living in the neighbourhood,u00a0 they scanned the list of visitors to the call centre and zeroed in on Sunil Kumar, a school dropout, who was selected as a trainee in the company but rejected later by the team leader whose phone he had stolen," Ajai added.
The rejection reportedly angered Kumar who decided to steal the team leader's phone. He used the phone to call up the police control room and tell them that a bomb had been planted in important spots in the city.
Sunil reportedly told the police that he wanted to punish the team leader and the call centre for rejecting him.
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He reportedly told the police that he hit upon the idea of making hoax calls after reading a newspaper article.
Sunil Kumar has been booked for creating panic and criminal intimidation and has been remanded to judicial custody.
