Mumbai resident Sagar Surve receives abuses and threat calls as he is mistaken for Rhea Chakraborty; Blocks over 150 phone number

Sagar Surve, a resident of Mumbai, whose phone number differs from that of Rhea’s by a single digit, receives threat calls and abusive messages.

A Mumbai resident who worked as a clerical staffer in an educational institution had blocked over 150 phone numbers as abuses were coming his way. As his mobile number closely resembles Rhea Chakraborty’s number.

Mumbai Mirror allegedly reported that Sagar Surve’s mobile number differs from Rhea’s number by just one digit. He blocked over 150 numbers and later switched off his mobile phone after receiving abusive messages and phone calls for a week.

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Surve did not pay much attention to a caller who asked for Rhea and then rejected the call by saying it as a wrong number. Later, the frequency of calls and messages kept on increasing and the calls were abusive too. He quoted in the Mumbai Mirror report that, “I started receiving messages, voice calls and video calls on WhatsApp. People asked me to send them a photograph of myself when I told them that they were mistaken. I tried to ignore the calls but it only worsened over the next three days.”

The report adds that Sagar Surve realised this issue after his cousin pointed out that a news channel had recklessly put out Rhea’s mobile number when they were trying to show Sushant’s call records. He further mentioned how his mobile number differed from Rhea’s just by a single digit.