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Hidden Phone Found In Women’s Washroom At Restaurant In Hyderabad, Worker Held

Mumbai: A worker in a drive-in restaurant in Hyderabad’s Jubilee Hills has been arrested after a phone, with its recording switched on, was found by a customer in the women’s washroom.

A female customer of a restaurant in posh Jubilee Hills lodged a police complaint after a hidden camera was found on the upper shelf of the washroom. She handed over the camera phone to Jubilee Hills Police Station.

The police immediately launched an investigation and found that the camera phone belonged to an employee of the restaurant. Police have arrested Bongrala Banerjee, a native of the Nalgonda district. He reportedly told police that he kept the phone in the washroom when he went to clean it and forgot it there.

A case under Sections 354C (voyeurism), 509 (insulting the modesty of any woman) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 67 (publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form) of the Information Technology Act was booked against him. Police, who reportedly found four hours of recording in the camera phone, took up further investigation.

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