A writer from Uttar Pradesh got a man arrested a few days ago after catching him filming her while she was trying on a swimming costume in a Bandra (West) boutique
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This shopping trip was definitely not a therapeutic one. This writer from Uttar Pradesh got a man arrested a few days ago after catching him filming her while she was trying on a swimming costume in a Bandra (West) boutique. The accused has been identified as Movin Sarwalo, a businessman from Borivli.
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The incident happened on June 2, when the woman was out shopping in Bandra. She visited the boutique and selected a swimming costume. While going into the changing room, she noticed Sarwalo watching her. Ignoring him, she went in, locked the door and was trying on the swimsuit, when she spotted a hand raising a cellphone from the top of the changing room partition.
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She caught him red-handed and asked him if he was shooting a video of her. Visibly panicked by then, he denied any wrongdoing. She snatched the phone from him and found her photos in it. She then took him to the police.
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“We registered an FIR under section 354C (any man who watches, or captures the image of a woman engaging in a private act in circumstances where she would usually have the expectation of not being observed) of the Indian Penal Code and arrested the culprit,” said an officer.
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Sarwalo was produced in court, which sent him to judicial custody.
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