Photographer uploads video of south Mumbai woman online, booked for voyeurism

MUMBAI: The DB Marg police have registered an FIR against a cityd-based digital studio CEO, who is also a well-known photographer, for voyeurism. He was booked for uploading the dance profile video of a South Mumbai-based woman on a web portal without her consent. The 40-year-old victim, an executive of a company, runs a dance class.
The case was registered on July 19 after the victim found her profile video shot by the photographer uploaded online alongside nude women. The suspect is yet to be arrested as the police are still probing the case. DB Marg police senior inspector Pradeep Khude confirmed that the FIR was registered based on the woman’s complaint.
“The photographer made my profile video viral on objectionable sites and even sold it to some foreign web agencies without my knowledge,” said the victim in her complaint.
The photographer has been booked under IPC sections 354 (C) (voyeurism), 500 (defamation) and under the IT Act. TOI has the FIR.
The victim’s lawyer Vaibhav Khanolkar said she met the photographer in 2019 for shooting her dance video profile. “The victim later found out that her profile video had been edited and uploaded on an objectionable website without her consent. She lost two marriage proposals after prospective suitors informed her that they found her profile video along with objectionable contents,” the lawyer said.