‘Mistaken identity’ drags innocent radio professionals into email scam
A leading Indian newspaper on Tuesday published a report changing the names of those involved, inadvertently, to names that belong to radio professionals working at UAE radio stations.
The story concerns an email scandal. Both radio professionals who share names with those named in the report have been flooded with telephone calls, leaving them fuming with anger.
The Indian newspaper report concerning the scandal inadvertently changed the name of the victim to an alias that happened to be the name of another senior radio jockey who works in a Dubai-based FM radio station.
The Emirates 24|7 report correctly identified the victim as ‘MN’ but quoted the Indian media report for more details, which was the source of the mistake. Emirates 24|7 confirms that the victim is MN and that the Dubai-based FM station radio jockey is in no way connected with this scandal.
Meanwhile, senior staff at radio stations have expressed shock at the developments.
“What caused the confusion is that there is another RJ by the same name as one of the accused in the industry.
“She has been receiving a lot of calls ever since the news broke,” said one of the senior staff working at a Malayalam radio station in Dubai.
The incident followed the arrest of two people Ashvin Kumar and Gayatri - the latter had worked as an RJ from a UAE based radio station - for shooting a colleague’s nude images and circulating them over email.
Police are also looking for Shibin who is said to have helped Gayatri to obtain the images.
MN, the colleague whose pictures were posted online was also a friend of Ashwin.
The accused Gayathri is said to have been upset with MN after she was replaced by the latter on a prime time radio show worked in co-ordination with Shibin to get hold of MN’s nude images from Ashwin and then circulated it to her colleagues in the office.
According to another it was even wrong to reveal the identity of the accused.
“We still do not know for sure if the person who has been accused of the crime is guilty or not,” he said.