Pune: 32-year-old held on charges of voyeurism and stalking

PUNE: A 32-year-old Upper Indiranagar resident was arrested by the city police on Friday for voyeurism and stalking after a woman masseur at an Ayurveda massage centre in Market Yard lodged an FIR accusing him of taking a video while she was doing her job and seeking sexual favours from her.
Senior inspector Duryodhan Pawar of the Market Yard police said, “We have arrested Suresh Mahadik, who is employed with an engineering workshop at Gujarwadi near Katraj, after tracking him down with the help of the mobile number he had given at the massage centre.We produced him before a magisterial court which, on Saturday, ordered his remand in police custody for five days.”
Police said Mahadik had gone to the massage centre on Wednesday afternoon. The woman, a local resident, is a trained masseur, and she started giving a massage to Mahadik. However, the latter surreptitiously took a video using his cell phone.
Police said the woman alleged in her FIR that Mahadik threatened to make the video clip viral if she did not submit to his demands.
A case has been registered under Sections 354 (C) (any man who watches or captures the image of a woman) & (D) (stalking) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code, besides provisions of the IT Act.
“He also followed the woman. He had given his phone number at the massage parlour which helped us in locating him,” Pawar said.