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The Bengaluru constabulary are connected the look retired for a man, who posing arsenic an authoritative from the Department of Telecommunication (DoT), called Rajya Sabha subordinate Sudha Murthy and tried to get her idiosyncratic information.
Based connected the ailment by Ganapathy Bopaiah, connected behalf of Sudha Murthy, the constabulary person registered an FIR connected Saturday charging the accused nether sections 66C (identity theft), 66D(impersonation) and 84C (attempt to perpetrate offence) of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
The accused posing arsenic a staffer from DoT called Ms. Murthy and told her that her mobile fig had not been linked with her Aadhar and sought her idiosyncratic details, which she denied to give. The accused allegedly turned abusive and threatened to artifact her SIM paper successful the adjacent 3 hours if she did not springiness the details. Ms. Murthy chopped the telephone and checked connected TrueCaller and the fig was saved arsenic “Telecom Department”.
The constabulary person traced the caller to Kolkata and a squad has been dispatched to way him down.
