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The police were called and the man, also a customer, was booked and arrested for trying to record the minor in the trial room of the cloth store. (File Photo)A 27-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly recording a 15-year-old girl at a trial room of a cloth store in a mall in Ahmedabad, police said.
“The girl saw the phone in the cubicle, and she picked it up and went out and gave it to her mother who was standing outside the trial rooms. Meanwhile, the accused also came out to take his phone back from them,” said ACP Roshni P Solanki of the SC/ST Cell of Ahmedabad City Police.
The police were called and the man, also a customer, was booked and arrested for trying to record the minor in the trial room of the cloth store.
Police said that the trial rooms had a common partition wall, and the accused allegedly tried to record the girl through a small hole at the bottom.
Based on the complaint by the girl, an FIR was filed against the man, identified as Ravi Suresh Prajapati. He was booked under various Sections of the Information Technology Act, POCSO Act and the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
The accused was detained and later placed under arrest by Vastrapur police. The case was subsequently handed over to the SC/ST Cell.
“According to the complaint, there were videos of at least three other women on the phone. The phone has been seized and sent to FSL for verification,” said ACP Solanki.
Further investigation is underway.
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