Serial stalker arrested for threatening girls

UNDER ARREST: Thirty-year-old Vivek Kanwat stands accused of terrorising college going girls.

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New Delhi: The Delhi police on Saturday arrested a man who had made life miserable for more than 20,000 college girls all over country.

Thirty-year-old Vivek Kanwat stands accused of terrorising college going girls in Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore and Gorakhpur.

A mechanical engineer from a reputed engineering college in Delhi, Vivek worked for a PSU in Bokaro and allegedly wreaked havoc in the life of thousands of girls - by making obscene calls from SIM cards obtained through fake identity cards.

If a girl refused to talk to him, he allegedly pasted a fake obscene profile of the girl on social networking sites. Police say his modus operandi was unique.

Additional CP, Crime Satyendra Garg said, “He would steal the mobile phone of a girl and then from the phone book of the girl used to get number of other girls.”

According to the police, Vivek was infatuated with girls. And when his efforts to woo them were unsuccessful, he harassed them.

The police have recovered more than 25 SIM cards and six mobile phones from Vivek.

Explaining the modus operandi, Garg said Vivek was a sharp and intelligent stalker. He used to steal mobile phone of girls thinking that through stolen phones he would be able to get numbers of several other girls. He was found in possession of more than 20,000 phone numbers of girls and women.

He would go on a morning walk in the Shalimar Bagh area and used to keep a strict watch over those who would leave home for buying milk or go for a walk leaving their doors open.

After getting an opportunity, Vivek would enter the house and take away mobile phones, purses or other valuable articles that could be concealed easily.