India, Sept. 22 -- Rajya Sabha MP and philanthropist Sudha Murthy recently received a hoax call claiming her mobile services would be disconnected due to misuse, in an apparent attempt to extract "sensitive information."

Murthy has filed a First Information Report (FIR) against an unidentified person for the call she received on September 5. The call reportedly came from a number that appeared as "Telecom Dept" when checked on the Truecaller app.

According to news agency ANI, the FIR was registered with the Cyber Crime police in Bengaluru on September 20 after an unknown person called Infosys chairman Narayan Murthy's wife, claiming to be a telecommunications department employee.

The FIR states that the person told Sudha Murthy that he...