The Banashankari police in Bengaluru Wednesday arrested a 26-year-old lodge administration graduate for allegedly filming ladies strolling on Bengaluru’s streets and posting the voyeuristic movies on Instagram.
The accused, recognized as Gurdeep Singh, is a resident of Ok R Puram who’s presently unemployed and residing together with his brother in a rented lodging. The police arrested him from his home after launching a suo motu investigation into his social media actions.
The Banashankari police initiated the case on June 12 after their social media wing found an Instagram account that was filming and posting movies of girls with out their consent. The incident got here to gentle when a graduate pupil from a non-public school spoke out in opposition to the alleged harassment on her Instagram account. She alleged that she had been filmed inappropriately on Church Avenue and that the video was posted on-line with out her consent.
“Just lately, there was a video of me shot in public on Church Avenue. It was shot very inappropriately after which posted on-line with out my consent. I attempted contacting the individual behind the account, and there was no response,” she acknowledged in her video enchantment.
The police mentioned that Gurudeep’s account had greater than 10,000 followers on Instagram and he had uploaded roughly 45 movies to his Instagram account. In addition they mentioned their evaluation confirmed that the accused intentionally offered these movies in sluggish movement to maximise viewer engagement and enhance the exploitative nature of the content material.
The police are presently working to acquire a court docket order to have the Instagram account completely deleted or deactivated.