Gurgaon: A senior executive of a private bank and his family were subjected to more than 200 abusive calls, WhatsApp messages, OTP spam alerts and threats over several days.According to an FIR registered at Cyber Crime East police station in Gurgaon Sector 43, the harassment — at the hands of unknown persons posing as loan recovery agents — began after the banker started “receiving repeated calls enquiring about an unknown employee who allegedly took a loan”, the banker alleged. The complainant said the women members of the family were subjected to vulgar verbal abuse.The complainant told police that he informed the callers he had no knowledge of the person or the alleged loan account and requested them not to contact him again. However, the callers continued contacting several members of his family throughout the day and night.The callers misused delivery service platforms and third-party numbers linked to Blinkit and Swiggy to bypass blocked numbers and continue contacting the family. According to police, the situation escalated after the accused allegedly sent photographs of the complainant’s family members and children through WhatsApp and other online platforms, “raising concerns over privacy and safety”.Police said the complainant and his family collectively received “more than 200 calls through normal cellular networks and WhatsApp calls”. Whenever one number was blocked, calls allegedly started coming from different numbers.The callers were accused of using abusive and obscene language during calls and messages and attempting to intimidate the family. The FIR said that “the accused also flooded the family’s phones with OTP and spam messages from platforms such as Zepto, Allen, Licious, EatSure, Physics Wallah and Lenskart in an attempt to mentally harass us.”An officer said, “Based on the complaint, we have registered the FIR under sections 351(2) (criminal intimidation) and 79 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the BNS.”
