Ex-boyfriend held for harassing bank staffer with 300 CODs
Times of India | 10 April 2025
12 Kolkata: An ex-boyfriend of a young bank executive was arrested for spooking her with 300 cash-on-delivery orders in four months, which led the woman to file a harassment complaint.
TOI reported on March 7 about the 24-year-old woman who faced severe harassment from a stalker sending multiple cash-on-delivery packages, resulting in distress and her accounts being blocked by Amazon and Flipkart. The police, investigating leads, initially suspected her colleagues' involvement in the impersonation, but later found out it was her ex-boyfriend, Suman Sikdar (25).
Police said Sikdar, a resident of Nadia, knew the woman for years. They recently broke up, leading him to harass her with the bulk parcels as an act of revenge. "The man confessed to making the parcel bookings and harassing her with texts and calls from unknown numbers. He said the woman loved online shopping and often demanded gifts from him, which he couldn't afford. He was under the impression the woman left him for his inability to provide for her, and hence he started harassing her with the bulk delivery of parcels," said an officer of Bidhannagar commissionerate.
The woman lodged a complaint with Lake Town police station last month for facing relentless harassment from the stalkercausing severe distress.
The woman said the problem started in Nov last year, shortly after her breakup, when she had to return several hundred parcels that delivery men brought to her home. "All of them were cash-on-delivery products, and they range from tablets and mobile phones to dresses and small gift items. Throughout Feb, there were multiple deliveries of Valentine's Day gifts and other products each day. I had frequent tiffs with delivery agents who negatively rated me, and when I took the matter up with the e-commerce platforms, they blocked my account," said the woman, who works at the Lake Town branch of a nationalised bank.
Sikdar was produced before a Salt Lake court on Wednesday, where he was granted bail.