Daijiworld Media Network-Bengaluru (RJP)
Bengaluru, May 5: A man was arrested for clicking photographs of a girl at Karnataka State Pollution Control Board office on Thursday, May 4.
The accused has been identified as Senthil (35), an ex-serviceman.
The complainant girl is aged 19. She is an internee with a national television news channel.
According to the complaint, the girl had come to Pollution Control Board office on Church Street along with a reporter and other TV crew. They were supposed to take a sound byte of an official of Karnataka Lake Conservation and Development Authority.
When the internee and the TV crew were waiting at the reception, she noticed that a man sitting there was clicking her pictures on his mobile phone. She informed her colleagues about it and they confronted the man. They then snatched his phone and found the girl’s pictures in it.
The man claimed that he is also a journalist with a Tamil daily. He tried his best to intimidate the TV crew. The crew then went to Cubbon Park police station and lodged a complaint.
Senthil was arrested and has been booked under IPC section 509 on the charge of gesture or act intended to outrage the modesty of a woman.
Police are investigating the case.