The Mulund police on Saturday caught 28-year-old X-Ray technician Ansar Shaikh, who allegedly hid a camera phone in the changing room of a diagnostic centre, which was discovered by a woman patient. The police has sent the mobile for forensic analysis to retrieve clips that he is suspected to have shot and later deleted.
According to an officer from the Bhandup police, Shaikh was hiding in a dargah in the Khendipada area of Bhandup after he escaped from the spot upon being confronted by the victim and her husband. He was produced in a local magistrate court, which remanded him to police custody of two days. ACP Vasant Tajne said, “He was hired around 15 days ago and we have found only one clip in the phone. We strongly suspect that he might have recorded clips of other women, which were not discovered
until the day of the incident. The forensic team will recover videos, which could have been possibly deleted by the accused. We will conduct a thorough interrogation of the accused.”
Shaikh, who is a resident of Diva and hails from Nashik, was busted when the 26-year-old woman patient who found the camera phone in a white plastic bag that was hanging on the wall of the changing room. After discovering that the phone had captured her while changing, she informed her husband and the two immediately confronted the hospital staff and Shaikh.
In the ensuing commotion, Shaikh brandished a knife and fled from the spot injuring a female staffer who tried to stop him. He had been booked under Section 292 (distributing obscene material), 509 (word, gesture or act insulting modesty of a woman) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC and relevant sections of the IT Act.