Police officer in Mumbai held for stalking, assaulting & sending lewd messages to woman colleague

Mumbai police has arrested an Assistant Police Inspector (API) for allegedly stalking, assaulting and sending vulgar messages to one of his woman colleagues.

The officer, Deepak Baburao Deshmukh, was nabbed after his woman colleague, a police officer, lodged a complaint against him on Tuesday. An FIR was registered against him for outraging her modesty, stalking, sending obscene messages to her and assaulting her by entering her residence.

According to the reports, the officer was recently transferred to the police control room. During the probe, police found that Deshmukh felt that he was transferred because of the woman police officer, following which he started harassing her.


However, she lodged the complaint after he entered her residence on Tuesday and assaulted her.

Deshmukh was booked under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 354 (outraging the modesty of woman), 354-D (stalking), 452 (house trespass) and other sections of Information of Technology Act, the official said, adding that further investigation is underway.

(Inputs from PTI)