orthopedician

Cooper Hospital

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Yogendra Jaiswar

Juhu Police Station

MBBS

BJ Medical College

Yogendra Jaiswar, 29, an, purportedly told the cops he recorded the women ‘for fun’.A resident doctor from the civic-runin Juhu was arrested on Tuesday on charges of clandestinely video-recording two female colleagues – both roommates -- on his mobile phone in May.The women told the police they came to know about the clips only after the recordings were circulated on a fewgroups, after which one of them approached the Juhu police on Tuesday., 29, an orthopedician, purportedly filmed the complainants from the partition gap between their room and the one adjacent, and circulated the clip among his colleagues, officers fromsaid.The accused was booked under the Indian Penal Code Section 509 for outraging modesty of women, besides Section 66A of the Information Technology Act for circulating offensive messages. He was remanded in police custody till today (Thursday).Jaiswar was caught after one of the women, who saw the video clips that had been circulated, suspected his involvement as he had been pestering her with messages from the time she joined the course at HBT Medical College, on the Cooper Hospital premises. After she approached the hospital dean and subsequently the Juhu Police, Jaiswar’s phone and laptop were checked, and three video clips were found stored in the phone.Sources at the Juhu Police Station said Jaiswar purportedly told the police he had been clandestinely recording women “for fun”. “The accused and the complainants are allotted rooms on the same floor.One of the complainants said she realised she had been video-recorded when a few batchmates told her about the clips,” the Juhu Police Station source said.Senior Inspector Sunil Gosalkar from Juhu Police Station confirmed the incident, saying a doctor had been arrested, but refused to comment further.Jaiswar, a resident of Kalyan, had studiedfromin Pune. The Cooper Hospital dean, Dr Ganesh Shinde, said an inquiry has been launched and steps have been taken to ensure such incidents don’t happen. “We have decide to sack Jaiswar,” he said.Joint Commissioner of Police (law & order) Deven Bharti said the police have found video clips of two women stored in Jaiswar’s phone. “One of the women approached us and an FIR was filed. We are investigating whether these clips were circulated,” he said.