On February 21, Dutt had filed an FIR with the cyber cell saying that she received obscene pictures, threatening messages, phone calls and WhatsApp calls from unknown people.
“I appear to have been made a victim of some fake news propaganda and my number has been shared on all social media platforms. I have been sent nude pictures and sexually abusive text messages. I fear for my well-being, security and life as this is a coordinated assault by a violent mob,” Dutt stated in her FIR and wrote that one message had read “goli maar denge”.
A senior officer told the Indian Express, “A team was formed and police, using technical surveillance, arrested the men, identified as Rajiv Sharma (23), Hemraj Kumar (31) and Aditya Kumar (34) from Delhi and Shabbir Gurfan Pinjari (45), a resident of Surat.”
A probe into the matter disclosed that Sharma is pursuing his graduation via correspondence from a private university, 23-year-old Rajiv Hemraj works as a chef in a private hotel, and Aditya, 34, is a sales executive with a private firm.
All three from Delhi were charged for sending offensive text messages and have been given bail. Shabbir Gurfan Pinjari, 45, works in a butcher shop and was charged for sending an obscene photo and has been remanded to 14-day judicial custody.
The police had registered the FIR under IPC sections 506 (threatening), 507 (criminal intimidation), 354-D (stalking), and 120-B (criminal conspiracy), and sections 67 and 67-A (publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act) of the IT Act.
On Wednesday, after the police arrested the four men, Dutt wrote on Twitter, “Four men arrested by Delhi Police cyber cell for stalking me, sexually abusing me, sending me nude/D#ck pictures and in one case threatening to kill me. However this is not over. I have listed ten more numbers in my FIR and before a magistrate. Will follow till each one jailed.”
