Medico uses app to mask number, abuses teachers
Shimona Kanwar| TNN | Sep 12, 2017, 00:49 IST
Chandigarh: A third-year MBBS student at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, was recently caught using a mobile application that can flash a different phone number while making a call and change the voice of the caller. The student had misused this application and abused his teachers. He also tried to blackmail his junior. But she recognised him and reported the matter to director-principal Dr A K Janmeja. The student is the son of a well-known city-based doctor.
The case has been forwarded by the complainant to cyber cell. The police are also checking if the phones were hacked, said Harinder Singh Sekhon, in-charge, cyber cell, Chandigarh Police. "We are examining the case. Earlier, there was an app which used proxy settings of someone else. It is no more available."
However, students in the medical college have informed that teachers that the accused used a caller mask app available in the US for 300$.
This is the first incident of its kind to have taken place in the medical college. "We are supposed to have ethics as an important aspect in our profession. If this is what students have started doing now, what kind of doctors will they become?" said a senior doctor.
Sources in the police said the student had used the app to abuse a demonstrator (tutor). The number which flashed on his mobile screen was of a senior faculty member. "The student continued to make such calls and used one faculty against the other by calling names. Humiliated by this act, when one of the doctors spoke to the caller (whose number flashed on his cell), it was revealed that someone was playing a prank," said a doctor at GMCH.
The identity of the student was revealed when the junior student recognised the voice despite its modification. "The student has not even been reprimanded or asked for an explanation. The student confessed and wrote a letter of apology to the director-principal. But nothing has been done so far. Surprisingly, one of the doctors who was abused is a member of the faculty welfare committee," said a doctor.
When Dr Janmeja was contacted, he said, "We will look into the matter and go by the set procedures. An inquiry has already been marked."
Shimona Kanwar| TNN | Sep 12, 2017, 00:49 IST
Chandigarh: A third-year MBBS student at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, was recently caught using a mobile application that can flash a different phone number while making a call and change the voice of the caller. The student had misused this application and abused his teachers. He also tried to blackmail his junior. But she recognised him and reported the matter to director-principal Dr A K Janmeja. The student is the son of a well-known city-based doctor.
The case has been forwarded by the complainant to cyber cell. The police are also checking if the phones were hacked, said Harinder Singh Sekhon, in-charge, cyber cell, Chandigarh Police. "We are examining the case. Earlier, there was an app which used proxy settings of someone else. It is no more available."
However, students in the medical college have informed that teachers that the accused used a caller mask app available in the US for 300$.
This is the first incident of its kind to have taken place in the medical college. "We are supposed to have ethics as an important aspect in our profession. If this is what students have started doing now, what kind of doctors will they become?" said a senior doctor.
Sources in the police said the student had used the app to abuse a demonstrator (tutor). The number which flashed on his mobile screen was of a senior faculty member. "The student continued to make such calls and used one faculty against the other by calling names. Humiliated by this act, when one of the doctors spoke to the caller (whose number flashed on his cell), it was revealed that someone was playing a prank," said a doctor at GMCH.
The identity of the student was revealed when the junior student recognised the voice despite its modification. "The student has not even been reprimanded or asked for an explanation. The student confessed and wrote a letter of apology to the director-principal. But nothing has been done so far. Surprisingly, one of the doctors who was abused is a member of the faculty welfare committee," said a doctor.
When Dr Janmeja was contacted, he said, "We will look into the matter and go by the set procedures. An inquiry has already been marked."
