SACK THE CHEATS
Thane Cyber Crime Cell questions Nach Baliye contestant Manav Gohil on why he and his wife Shweta bought 200 SIM cards
Nilesh Nikade
It emerged last night that the Thane Cyber Cell (TCCC) cops have questioned Nach Baliye contestants Shweta Kwatra and Manav Gohil over how and why they had purchased 200 pre-paid SIM cards from an Andheri-based BPL dealer.
The cyber crime cell was investigating a seemingly-routine case of obscene SMSes sent to a Thane housewife, when they stumbled onto a much bigger scam that can impact all reality-based shows on television.
Probing a complaint by a Thane woman who had received a series of lewd SMSing on the night of October 16 from three different numbers, cops found that all three numbers were part of the 200 SIM cards that a BPL dealer in Andheri had sold to Kwatra and Gohil. The couple, police say had purchased these 200 SIM cards in bulk from the dealer to gift to friends and well wishers who could then vote for them in the dance show. Nach Baliye 2 is poised at a crucial stage with four couples eliminated and the fate of the remaining six, including Manav and Shweta, hanging on the number of SMSing they receive in their favour.
One of these 200 SIM cards bought was handed over to an assistant of Mahesh Patkar who is the choreographer for Manav and Shweta on Nach Baliye.
