A 26-year-old spurned lover allegedly decided to take revenge by uploading the woman's number on a porn site and sending her sex toys by courier. He was arrested by the Malad police in Mumbai, India for harassing the woman.
Cops took action after the college student approached them with a complaint in February about getting calls from people for sexual favors. Sex toys were also sent to her by some unknown person, according to Mid-Day.
Orders were placed on cash-on-delivery basis and her phone number was written on the items. The woman said that initially she did not suspect anything as she assumed it was a mistake, so she used to send the parcels back. But when it started happening frequently, she opened one of the packages and found a sex toy. Then she went to the Malad police station in Mumbai, Maharashtra and filed a complaint.
It was difficult for police to trace the parcels due to their mode of payment. Senior inspector Dhananjay Ligade told The Times Of India that when they started working on the case, they had no leads. "The victim had never imagined that an acquaintance of hers would be involved in harassing her. He had covered his tracks well," he said.
A police officer said that they contacted the courier company and asked them to find the sender. "We also started looking for the IP address of the person who uploaded the girl’s number on the porn site,” added the officer.
Later, cops found that the accused used a virtual private network (VPN) service to book the parcels and all of them were booked using a different IP addresses. Cops got more than 500 IP addresses when they approached the internet service provider after which they asked for the list of IP addresses from which orders were placed for sex toys. This helped them to track down one IP address used by the accused and finally find him.
The accused, Kunal Angolkar, is a college dropout and is not working anywhere. According to police, he is tech savvy and does not have a past criminal record. When the police disclosed to the woman that it was Angolkar who had been harassing her, she was shocked. She said that she had rejected his advances in the past, but had never imagined he would do such a thing.
