The Pulikeshi Nagar police have arrested a software engineer, who moonlighted as a photographer, for allegedly molesting and sexually harassing a 21-year-old woman during a photo shoot.
According to the police, the accused, Aditya Sankla Jain, 26, is a serial offender. “We received two similar complaints against him and arrested him from his house in Cox Town,” said a police officer.
Jain is a software engineer who spends his free time working as a photographer. It’s how he met his latest victim, a student and aspiring model.
In her statement to the police, she said she got in touch with Jain through his Instagram account in December 2018. “He told her that he is a professional photographer and offered to help her with her portfolio. He suggested a place near his house for the shoot,” said the police officer.
The woman agreed, but when she met him at his house in December he allegedly touched her inappropriately, photographed her without her permission while she was changing clothes and molested her. The woman was able to escape from his house and refused to contact him again.
She approached the police after learning through another student’s Instagram post that he had attempted to sexually molest her as well.
Jain has been booked for outraging the modesty of a woman and remanded in judicial custody.