09 May,2024 09:52 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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The Pune Police in Maharashtra have registered a case against a female engineering student from the city for allegedly clicking pictures of girls in her hostel and sharing them with her male friend, an official said on Thursday, reported the PTI.
The girl and her male friend have been booked for voyeurism, the official.
The official said the accused girl is a second-year student of a well-known college in the city's Shivajinagar area and lives in its hostel.
The institute had received complaints about the girl clicking photos of her hostel roommates and sharing them with a male friend outside the campus, he said, as per the PTI.
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The institute conducted an inquiry and later approached the police with a complaint.
"We went through some of the photos and found that they were not obscene. But they were shared without the knowledge of her roommates," said the official from Shivajinagar police station, according to the PTI.
A case has been registered against the girl student and her male friend for voyeurism under the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act, he added.
Woman cop held by ACB in Mumbai for taking mobile phone as bribe
A woman police sub inspector in Mumbai was held for allegedly demanding and accepting a mobile phone as a bribe to help a man accused in a case, a Maharashtra Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) official said on Thursday, reported the PTI.
The woman cop was identified as PSI Rajashree Shintre, 33. She is attached to the Amboli police station in the western part of the city, the official added, as per the PTI.
"She sought a Samsung A 55 mobile phone from a man to help him in a case registered in Jogeshwari in which he was arrested. This person has interests in the cable business in the area," the ACB official said, the news agency reported on Thursday.
"After he complained to the Maharashtra Anti Corruption Bureau, we verified the complaint and then held Rajashree Shintre while accepting a dummy phone during a trap," the official said, as per the PTI.
(with PTI inputs)
