HYDERABAD: In a bizarre case that initially had cops in splits, a 79-year-old man approached the cybercrime team saying his daughter-in-law was spying on him. Initially doubting his claim, cops began probing and to their surprise found the woman had installed a call recording
app
in the man’s phone and linked it to her email.
As a result, recorded phone conversations were getting mailed to her.
The complainant
Vaikuntham
is a businessman from
Karimnagar
who has four sons. But he along with his wife lives with the family of their 45-year-old second son in Karimnagar.
For the past few years, his second daughter-in-law, a 40-year-old housewife, started pestering him to distribute his property among his four sons so that she and her husband could live separately.
However, Vaikuntham and his wife did not agree to divide the property.
“A few months back, Vaikuntham noticed that his second daughter-in-law was making sly remarks referring to private conversations he had with other family members over the phone to which she was not privy to. Vaikuntham initially suspected that she might have overheard him talking over the phone,” cyber crime assistant commissioner of police
KVM Prasad
said.
A few months back, Vaikuntham and his wife moved to their elder son’s house in
Begumpet
and before reaching the city he kept a few valuables in an almirah and hid the keys at a secret spot in the house after discussing with his son.
“Recently, when Vaikuntham and his wife returned to Karimnagar and opened the almirah, they realised that a few valuables were missing. They informed about the same to their son in Hyderabad and a complaint was lodged with us without mentioning what was missing. When we verified the phone, a call recorder linked to the email of the victim’s second daughter-in-law was found in the phone,” said the ACP.
“Alleging that without his permission, his daughter in law and son had installed the app in his phone, the complainant requested us to take legal action,”
Prasad
said.
Police registered a case under section 43 r/w 66, 66-C of the IT Act and has launched an investigation.
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