MANGALURU
: Three persons, including a lecturer and a correspondent of a college, were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly trying to tarnish the reputation of a 58-year-old woman lecturer.
The accused wrote her contact number and email address on the walls of public toilets and bus stands in Sullia, Subrahmanya, Sampaje, Madikeri, Mysuru, Chikkamagaluru, Mudigere, Balehonnur, NR Pura and
Shivamogga
, following which the victim started receiving calls seeking sexual favours.
The arrested are
Prakash Shenoy
, 44, college correspondent, from
Belthangady
taluk, Pradeep Poojary, 36, economics lecturer, from Bantwal and
Taranath B S Shetty
, 32, physical education director, from Hebri.
City police commissioner N Shashi Kumar said the victim, who is on deputation and serving at a first-grade college in Mangaluru for the past four and a half years, approached police when the harassment became unbearable. It is suspected that the accused were trying to settle scores with her over administrative and appointment issues in the college.
The accused had posted hundreds of postcards and inland letters with obscene content to the victim’s colleagues, college principals in the city, and officials in the department of collegiate education between November 12 and December 31, 2021. She even received obscene WhatsApp messages.