Youth arrested for lewd WhatsApp jokes

MUMBAI: A 21-year-old man from Ahmednagar district was arrested by the Bhoiwada police for allegedly posting lewd jokes on a WhatsApp group. The accused landed in

MUMBAI: A 21-year-old man from Ahmednagar district was arrested by the Bhoiwada police for allegedly posting lewd jokes on a WhatsApp group. The accused landed in trouble when he by mistake added a woman to the group who filed an FIR against him.

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According to Bhoiwada police, the arrested accused Ravi Pawar, when asked by his father to save a friend’s number in his phone, mistakenly saved the wrong number. The number he saved turned out to be that of the complainant, a housewife living in Bhoiwada area of Dadar east.

Pawar and his friend then made a WhatsApp group called ‘Shri shiv chatrapati pratishthan’ and added few contacts from his contact list. This included the number of the complainant . Pawar then posted a few lewd jokes on the group and the woman informed her husband about it. They then approached the cops on February 29. She also raised her voice on the group after which they started deleting members.

An FIR was registered under Section 509 of IPC and 67 and 67 A of the ITAct. When a police team called Pawar, he thought someone was joking with him and refused to come to Mumbai.

On reaching his home-town Jamkhed in Ahmednagar, the cops came to know that he works as a driver in Pune. They detained him from Pune and brought him here. They first interrogated him here and then arrested him. He was produced in court on Thursday and remanded to police custody till Friday.