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Mumbai: A 25-year-old resident of Bandra was yesterday ordered to be sent for psychiatric treatment by the district magistrate court.

Jahnvi (name changed to protect identity), it is reported, may be suffering from acute schizophrenia and may have a multiple personality disorder.

Jahnvi’s plight came to light when she registered a complaint at a local police station, two weeks ago, complaining of a stalker who would send her messages threatening to kill her. She had said in her complaint that she did not recognised the number from which the messages were sent. She also mentioned that the messages would usually come at night, while she was asleep, the messages would be accompanied by phone calls but as she was asleep at the time, she could not pick up the calls.

Jahnvi said she replied to some of the messages asking the person who he/she was but she would never get a reply. After suffering such messages for around a month, Jahnvi decided to lodge a complaint at the local Bandra station, hoping that police would trace the calls and end her misery.

However, what police investigations revealed came as a shock to Jahnvi. Police sources say investigations revealed that the number from which Jahnvi would get the calls had in fact been purchased by a woman from a Hill Road shop. The papers related to the sale of the SIM card suggested that the SIM card had been bought by Jahnvi herself. A copy of her passport was attached to the SIM card.

The sources further add that Jahnvi told cops that she had no recollection of buying the SIM card. She suggested that perhaps someone else had acquired her identification papers and had used them to buy a SIM card in her name. The Hill Road shopkeeper however, insisted that Jahnvi had bought the SIM card in person.

Jahnvi requested the cops to trace from where the SIM card was used. Probes revealed that the messages too were sent from the same area that Jahnvi lives in.

This prompted the cops ask Jahnvi to undergo psychological tests. Sources say that the tests revealed that Jahnvi suffered from Dissociative Identity Disorder, the medical term for a multiple personality disorder. Apparently, Jahnvi’s second-personality would take over while she was sleeping and would send her the messages after changing the SIM card on her phone. Since Jahnvi’s ‘true personality’ was asleep at the time, she would neither realise the loss of time, nor have any recollection of sending herself the messages. The other SIM card was kept at a place Jahnvi would not access while in her original personality.

Jahnvi, who was unavailable for comment, is originally from Dehradun and lives alone here. Her family has been informed about her condition and her mother who landed in Mumbai last week says that she’ll live here till Jahnvi’s treatment is over and then will take her daughter back home.

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