Stalker, who threatened to kidnap Sachin's daughter, nabbed by Mumbai Police

Mumbai Police have on Sunday arrested a person who was allegedly stalking cricketer Sachin Tendulkar's daughter Sara and threatened to abduct her.

Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar with his family at an event. Photo: PTI (File)

NEW DELHI: Mumbai Police have on Sunday arrested a person who was allegedly stalking cricketer Sachin Tendulkar's daughter Sara and had threatened to abduct her. "A 32-year-old man was arrested from West Bengal for allegedly harassing a former cricketer's 20-year-old daughter over phone", police said today. The accused, identified as Dev kumar Mitti, allegedly made several calls to the landline number of the ace cricketer, a resident of suburban Bandra, in December last year, a police official said. Mitti would tell the cricketer's domestic help who attended the calls that he would kidnap the young woman and marry her, he said. According to the official, the accused used to tell the domestic help that he had seen the cricketer's daughter on television, and used to pass lewd comments about her. As per preliminary investigation, Mitti, a school dropout, got the cricketer's landline number from Internet, the official said. A case was registered a few days back after the cricketer's manager approached the police. During investigation, police traced the caller's location to West Bengal and dispatched a team that arrested him on Saturday. Acting upon Sara's complaint, Police nabbed Dev from Midnapur in West Bengal. According to police, he had threatened to kidnap Sara if his demand of marrying her wasn't met.

@MumbaiPolice arrest Dev Kumar from Midnapur, West Bengal for stalking Sachin Tendulkar’s daughter Sara. The accused called up Tendulkar’s residence and threatened to kidnap Sara if his demand to marry her is not fulfilled @abpnewstv@abpmajhatv

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  Mitti has been booked under sections 354 D (offence of stalking), 507 (criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the IPC, the DCP said, adding that further investigation is on.