A 49-year-old autorickshaw driver was arrested in Maharashtra for allegedly defaming a Delhi woman by writing her contact number on toilet walls at Pune Railway Station and posting it online with derogatory remarks, news agency PTI reported. The accused, identified as Yasin Shaikh, reportedly held a grudge against the woman's husband, an officer said on Wednesday.

The police added that Shaikh had also repeatedly contacted and harassed the woman and her husband.

According to the officer quoted above, Shaikh had been harassing the woman for the past two to three years. He is described as semi-literate, with no prior criminal record. He was apprehended in Pune.