When a journalist called up the mobile number given yesterday by Haryana Police DGP Y P Singhal of DIG Rajshree Singh, heading the three-member women police officer's team, it turned out to be of an Indore resident.
The Indore resident immediately asked the journalist whether he wanted to ask about the alleged rape cases.
When told that he wanted to talk to DIG Rajshree, the Indore resident retorted that this was not the number of the DIG and he was being harassed since yesterday as he was repeatedly getting calls.
On a phone directory application, the number was found to be of Madhya Pradesh circle in the name of some other person instead of DIG Rajshree while the mobile numbers of the other two officers matched with the details on the app.
The DGP had yesterday announced constitution of the team headed by the DIG and two DSPs Bharti Dabas and Surinder Kaur as its members, "to gather information concerning the alleged incident of sexual assault on some women near Murthal on the night intervening February 22 and 23."
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Meanwhile, Haryana DGP Y P Singal could not be contacted despite repeated attempts.
Home Secretary P K Das, when asked about the gaffe, retorted "ask this question to the DGP."
The incorrect mobile number also featured in advertisements in several English and Hindi newspapers.
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