RANCHI: Priya Dubey,Sperintendent
of Tata Nagar (Railway) Police, faces a strange problem these
days. She is being “haunted” by a rumour about a ghost.
"Ab
tak takariban 100, na jane kitne aur aate (Till now, it is around
100; don’t know how many more will come)," she wonders as
she keeps count of the number of calls she received on her mobile, asking
whether it is a “ghost number”.
Lodging
a first information report, Ms Dubey stated that some people spread
a rumour that her cell phone (9431117171) was a ghost’s number and
as a result, she had been receiving a number of calls from the curious
public.
The Jamshedpur
police have prepared a list of about 100 errant callers and they are
being summoned for interrogation routinely.
The incoming facility to the aforementioned
number has been discontinued.
Priya
Dubey does not know how the rumour spread. “But whoever is playing
prank will not be spared,” the police officer said.
Among
the many callers, 12 year - old Neha Afroon in the course of interrogation
said she was just trying out the "ghost number" as everyone in her
locality said the number costs no charge to the dialler.
Sheer curiosity
Another
caller told the police that he dialled the number out of sheer curiosity
as he had missed a similar chance before.
Sometime
ago, a local daily carried a report about a mobile phone being carried
by a ghost in some other state. "That
time too, I had tried the number but it was switched off. But as the rumour spread again, I did not want to miss the opportunity,"
he said.
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