Patna, Nov. 29: Police are contemplating to reopen its cyber crime cell, closed a couple of years ago.

Patna superintendent of police (SP) Shivdeep Lande said: “We have received calls from at least three girls from Patna studying in Delhi and Bangalore, complaining that their boyfriends in Bihar had opened fake profiles in their names on Facebook, causing them agony.”

“The girls, once out in big cities for studies or work, enter a big league and their relationship with their boyfriends here sours. The jilted boys take revenge by opening their fake Facebook accounts. All three complainants started getting vulgar calls from many persons as a result. The girls added that they had lodged FIRs against the youths in Delhi and Bangalore. The Patna police cannot do much as the FIRs have been lodged already,” Lande explained.

The police, in the past few days, have received as many as 23 messages from girls being tormented by strangers who call them up and send them vulgar pictures on Whatsapp.

“There was a cyber crime cell of the Patna police till two years ago and it used to work decently. But now, it’s closed. With these kind of cases on the rise, the cell should be reopened with a team of expert officers,” Lande said.

Lande, then aide-de- camp (ADC) to the Bihar governor, had been a victim of cyber crime himself in 2013, when he had lodged a complaint stating that there were many fake Facebook profiles in his name.