'Katrina Kaif's number' robs Gurgaon techie's peac

GURGAON: A wrong number can rob you of your peace, Shipra Seth, a Gurgaon-based software professional, learnt this the hard way. A soft drinks company printed her cellphone number "erroneously" in one of theiradvertisement campaigns featuring actress Katrina Kaif.

For the past four weeks, Shipra, 33, has been receiving thousands of phone calls and obscene text messages addressing her as Katrina. The company's TV commercial being telecast since February says, "Katrina ka number label ke andar."

"I have been receiving more than 1,000 phone calls and large number of SMSs daily. I am tired of telling people I am not Katrina," said Shipra. When she asked the firm to remove her number from the labels of their product, the company responded that they did not provide the number and so cannot be held responsible if consumers dialed a wrong number.

Shipra then collected labels sent to her by callers from different parts of the country in which her number was printed and slapped a legal notice on the company.

TOI is in possession of the bill of Shipra's cellphone number and one of the labels of the soft drink company sent by a caller from Chennai in which the same number has been printed.

The software professional said she was on medical leave since January 4 due to a chronic back pain and was advised bed rest. But the calls aggravated her health problem. She has not been able to sleep and is on medication.