Adopting a stern stand, Additional Session Judge Madhu Jain refused to exonerate accused Puneet Malhotra.

Malhotra, 24, has been booked for trying to hurt the modesty of the girl, who had reportedly spurned his advances.

The court observed that prima facie evidence had brought on record that the accused had intruded upon the privacy of the girl by sending obscene messages to her landline phone through a website.

Maintaining that there was a confessional statement of the accused on record and that other evidence had also pointed towards his involvement, the court held that there was no illegality in framing penal charges against him and asked him to stand the trial in a lower court.

“During interrogation, he had confessed that he used to make ‘phone girlfriends’. He tried to propose to the victim, but she did not respond. To teach her a lesson he sent the mail,” noted the court, dismissing his revision petition.

The victim’s father, who had said he received a number of calls on his landline and that the caller said obscene things about his daughter, had lodged the complaint in the case.

The case dates back to October 2004, when Malhotra was booked by the Special Cell under Sections 292 and 509 of the IPC, pertaining to publishing words with intent to outrage the modesty of a woman.

Later, the police traced the calls to his residence in Keshav Puram.