Patna: A senior Indian Police Service official, currently posted as aide-de-camp to the Bihar governor, is in trouble with unidentified people opening up around 23 Facebook accounts/pages in his name and posting marriage proposals to scores of women.
The reason behind this is his being “an eligible bachelor”.
On Saturday, Shivdeep Waman Lande rushed to the office of Senior Superintendent of Police in Patna Manu Maharaj and registered a formal complaint against unknown persons for creating such mischief.
“I was surprised to know that so many Facebook accounts were being operated in my name while I have not opened any. I have brought the matter to the notice of the police and requested them nab the accused,” said Lande. According to him, the fake accounts are being operated daily and their friend lists have now crossed the 4,000 mark.
What was even more embarrassing were the streams of marriage requests being posted on his fake accounts from women after coming to know about his ‘bachelor status’. The matter does not end here. The women are even posting CVs on his fake Facebook accounts, asking him to consider a marriage proposal.
“Mom, now I am ready for marriage. Will you marry me,” reads one of the messages posted on his fake accounts which has received 673 responses in a single day, mostly from women.
Such was his popularity that while he was posted as the City SP of Patna, dozens of women rushed to his official residence and asked him to stay after the government transferred him out of the state capital in 2011. The reason behind their appeals was that Lande was the most accessible and had cracked down on men found loitering around the women’s colleges. He had also circulated his mobile numbers to women who called him if they were in trouble.
The entire matter came to light when one of his acquaintances called him to check whether the accounts were his. The police said his complaint has been registered and the matter has been handed over to the cyber crime cell for investigation.
