By IANS
Shimla : Policemen at Shimla’s Mall Road police station run for cover whenever the phone rings as they have been receiving a spate of abusive and bogus calls.
Policemen say a majority of the calls made to the emergency number 100 are not for assistance but made by abusive or lewd people.
“Among the callers is also a woman who often urges policemen to date her or marry her,” said Sub Inspector Rajendra Chandel, one of the men who answer these calls at the police station.
“These bogus calls have gone up in the past few weeks and on certain days they actually outnumber genuine police assistance calls,” he said.
The police control room has made a list of the telephone numbers from which the calls are being made. The list has been handed over to the district police chief’s office.