10 December,2019 09:07 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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A 35-year-old man was arrested by Parksite police on Saturday for allegedly stalking a college student and clicking her pictures. As per the police, the 20-year-old complainant is a student at a college in South Mumbai and stays in Vikhroli.
According to a report in Hindustan Times, the woman was on her way home on Friday afternoon when she saw the accused, Rehmat Ali Ansari following her.
A police officer said, "On confronting him, the accused replied that he was going to a nearby garden. She ignored him and went home. The next day when she was going to a store with her younger sister, she saw Ansari following her. The accused also tried to click her pictures."
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The woman shouted for help after which a few locals caught Ansari and handed him over to the police. The police registered a case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code. His phone was also seized and four pictures of the woman were found on his phone.
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