WhatsApp has blocked Cyberabad Police Commissionerate the helpline number of after a barrage of message got inundated following gang-rape and murder of a veterinarian. IT has now been allocated temporary helpline number. Cyberabad Police Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar tweeted on Sunday that WhatsApp has blocked Cyberabad Police”s WhatsApp number 9490617444. “We are now using 7901114100 for receiving citizens” grievances temporarily,” he added.
WhatsApp apparently deactivated the number after it received a flood of messages following the November 27 incident of gang-rape and murder of the veterinarian by four youths at Shamshabad on the city outskirts under the limits of Cyberabad Commissionerate. Cyberabad Commissionerate officials have sent a mail to WhatsApp, requesting it to activate the number.
