Jaisalmer: A gym trainer was arrested Saturday in Barmer following a complaint by a resident doctor for blackmailing and sending obscene messages to her. The man identified as Jitendra (32), would even send messages to people where her engagement was being discussed. He wold send messages to her friends and relatives, trying to prove that the doctor belonged to him and that he wouldn’t let her be with anyone else. When the accused came to the hostel where the doctor lives with a cake to celebrate her birthday Saturday, the Barmer district’s women police arrested him. He is currently being interrogated.Woman police officer, Mukandan, told TOI that on June 10, the doctor filed a report at the women’s police station that a man was harassing her. She expressed that she did not want to communicate or have any relationship with him, but he refused to understand and called her frequently. The doctor had met Jitendra while studying in Kota and he had been harassing her since then. After she moved to Barmer, he visited her here several times. He had even blackmailed the doctor and forced her to transfer Rs 20,000 online.
