The trial room in the Fabindia store in Maharashtra's Kolhapur
In yet another trial room snooping case, a worker of a Fabindia store in Maharashtra's Kolhapur has been arrested for allegedly filming a woman customer using his mobile phone, police officials told Press Trust of India (PTI) on Saturday.
The incident, which took place on March 31 in the premium ethnic clothing brand's outlet in Tarabai Park area in Kolhapur in south Maharashtra, came to light after Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani reported the trial room snooping incident in Fabindia's store in Candolim, Goa.
The worker, Prakash Ananda Ispurle, was arrested on April 1 after the woman filed a police complaint, and was sent to judicial custody, police said. He was booked under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) 354 - Outraging the modesty of a woman. He has been granted bail today.
The woman was trying clothes when Mr Ispurle placed his mobile phone in recording mode in the gap between the trial room door and the floor, police told PTI.
When she noticed the phone, she raised an alarm. Mr Ispurle quickly pulled out the mobile phone and hurriedly went to a corner of the store and deleted the recording, the police official said.
During investigation, police spotted Mr Ispurle in the CCTV footage filming the woman.