Delhi police gets complaints of 11,000 obscene calls

The Delhi police has received around 11,000 complaints from women that they have got objectionable calls or SMS in the last nine months.

A total of 10,989 calls were received at the 'Anti-Obscene Calls Cell' set up by Delhi police's crime branch between December 20, 2008 and September 30 this year, a senior police official said.

"Of these complaints, action has been taken in 9,670 cases," the official said.

The cell was set up in December last year after it came  to notice that some people were harassing women by sending obscene or lewd or provocative text messages and making calls.

"Most women bore this silently, choosing to ignore rather than go to a police station and embarrass themselves. To address this issue, we started the cell to ensure that action is taken and identity of the harassed individual is kept confidential," he said, adding the complainant is not required to come to a police station.

Women can complain about such calls on a toll-free  helpline 1096 or call 011-27894455. They can SMS the complaint to 0-9911135446, fax to 011-27292523 or email to acp-sit-dl@nic.in.