The Banashankari police have arrested a 26-year-old hotel management graduate, for shooting voyeuristic pictures and videos of women walking on the streets of Bengaluru without their consent and posting it on an anonymous Instagram account called ‘IndianWalk’. The account has 11,200 followers.
Based on a complaint by Praveen Hosur, PSI of social media monitoring cell, 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.
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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.
