Hyderabad: A 23-year-old private employee accused her landlord and an electrician of installing a hidden camera inside the washroom of her rented flat in Yousufguda. Following her complaint, Madhura Nagar police registered a case and arrested the landlord on Thursday. The woman discovered the device late on Monday after her husband noticed a loose screw in the bulb holder and found a miniature camera concealed within.
According to the police, the complainant had earlier informed her landlord, Ashok Yadav, about a fused bulb on Oct 4. Yadav, along with an electrician named Chintu, entered the flat while the family was away at work and carried out the repair.“Upon noticing the camera, when we confronted our landlord, he took away the holder and later returned it after tampering with it. He applied tape on the holder and said it wasn’t working. When I wanted to approach the police, the landlord offered to ‘settle the matter’ by calling the electrician. He urged us not to go to the police, claiming the electrician might blackmail us once released from jail,” the complainant alleged.Madhura Nagar inspector H Prabhakar said a case was registered under Sections 77 (voyeurism), 79 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman), 351(2) (criminal intimidation), 296 (obscene acts), and 238 (causing disappearance of evidence or giving false information to screen an offender) read with Section 3(5) (common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).“We have arrested the landlord and remanded him in judicial custody. The electrician is absconding, and efforts are on to trace him,” Prabhakar said.
