Friends and clients of tarot card reader receive SMSes claiming she's running a sex racket; associates suspect husband's hand
Friends and clients of tarot card reader receive SMSes claiming she's running a sex racket; associates suspect husband's hand
Her calling is predicting people's future, but she probably didn't see this coming. Delhi-based tarot card reader and socialite Poonam Sethi was at the Kirti Nagar police station late on Wednesday night to lodge an FIR. Sethi's friends and clients were receiving mobile text messages and emails claiming she was running "a full time sex racket for starved married women from a covert south Delhi rented apartment".u00a0 
Out of luck! Tarot card reader Poonam Sethi (left) lodging a complaint at
Kirti Nagar police station. Pic/Subhash Barolia
"I started getting calls from acquaintances about the SMS," said a visibly distraught Sethi to MiD DAY at a club in south Delhi where she was attending a designer friend's party.u00a0 "I have no idea who is trying to malign my name which I have earned after so much pain and labour," said the 34-year-old socialite, who has been writing columns for newspapers for a few years now.
Later in evening the lady decided to lodge a formal police complaint. "We have known her since childhood and it's all false," said her friend Raman Suri, who accompanied her to the police station. The SMS also mentions that she is "involved in a number of sex- based illicit affairs with young boys, especially from economically weaker sections and her male tarot card clients". "I'm sure her husband Sanjay Sethi is behind this because they have been having marital discord for a very long time," said a socialite who didn't wish to be named.
However, when contacted late at night, her husband Sanjay Sethi flatly denied the allegations. "It's absolutely false that I'm the one behind the SMS and she has no proof. But she is having affairs with young men and that has strained our relationship," he said. When asked about her husband's alleged involvement behind the matter the tarot card reader didn't deny the fact that she was undergoing marital discord but said: "I won't take anybody's name right now. Let the law take its course."
At the time of reporting this story Poonam Sethi was sitting at the police station demanding an FIR against the anonymous SMS sender be filed. However, the police seemed reluctant in taking action on the lady's complaint. The SHO wasn't available for comments.
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| What the law says |
| According to cyber law expert Pawan Duggal, anybody who indulges in such behaviour could be booked under the Information Technology act. For example, under section 67 for publishing of information which is obscene in electronic form can't be punished on first conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years and with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees and in the event of a second or subsequent conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years and also with fine which may extend to two lakh rupees. Under section 66 C for identity theft which can result in imprisonment for three years and a fine of up to one lakh rupees. |
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