Police have booked a priest of a temple
for allegedly putting up a camera over a roofless women's bathroom in Ghaziabad, police said on Saturday.
According to police, the said
temple is located adjacent to the Muradnagar Ganga canal. People usually
offer prayers after taking a dip in the canal.
The matter came to
light when a woman who went to the temple with her daughter on May 21
noticed a CCTV camera pointed at the roofless bathroom, police said.
"The woman noticed that the CCTV camera installed on the top was
focused on the room where women change their clothes," said Deputy
Commissioner of Police (Rural) Vivek Chandra Yadav.
The display of
the CCTV was linked with the mobile phone of the Mahant on which he
would watch the ladies, DCP said.
The woman immediately contacted
Mahant Goswami and asked about the CCTV camera on which he got angry and
hurled abuses. He threatened her to face the dire consequences if she
told anyone about the camera, the DCP said.
"After getting a
complaint, the Muradnagar police lodged an FIR on Friday. When the
police team reached the temple to arrest him, he was not there," said
the DCP.
Police have registered a case against the Mahant under
sections 354 (criminal assault on woman), 354 C (watching or capturing
image of women engaged in a private act), 504(intentional insult) and
506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.
Further
investigation is underway. -- PTI