Bengaluru: Man arrested for posting voyeuristic videos of women on Instagram
Based on a complaint filed by one of the victims last week, the police tracked down the accused identified as Gurdeep Singh, a resident of K. R. Puram, and arrested him. He has been booked for voyeurism and under the Information Technology Act, 2000.
The accused is unemployed and is living with his elder brother, the police said. He used to click pictures and shoot videos of women on the streets in an indecent manner and post it on Instagram. The police are in the process of taking down the page from Instagram. The accused is said to have deleted all the posts from the page before the police arrested him. The police have also seized the accused's phone and have sent it to Forensic Science Laboratory, Madiwala for analysis.
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It can be recalled that 27-year-old Diganth, working as an accountant at a private firm, was arrested in a similar case in May earlier this year. He had taken voyeuristic pictures and videos of women commuters on Namma Metro and had posted them on an anonymously-run Instagram page.
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