Overview
- The 23-year-old tenant discovered a miniature camera concealed in the bathroom’s bulb holder on October 13 after her husband noticed a loose screw.
- She had reported a fused bathroom light on October 4, after which the landlord allegedly sent an electrician who entered the flat while the couple were at work.
- The couple allege the landlord removed the bulb holder after they confronted him, returned it in a tampered state, and tried to dissuade them from filing a police complaint.
- Madhura Nagar police registered a case under multiple Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections, including 77 for voyeurism and 79 for acts insulting a woman’s modesty.
- Officers identified the arrested house owner as Ashok Yadav and said the electrician known as Chintu is absconding, with a search underway; a similar March incident at a Telangana girls’ hostel involved spy cameras hidden in phone chargers.