HYDERABAD:

police booked a 14-year-old student for recording the

of women taking bath at a hostel in Madhapur.

On Tuesday, police received a complaint from a 22-year-old student who stays at a private women's hostel in Madhapur. The complainant alleged the boy who lives in the building adjacent to her hostel, was recording videos of the women staying in the hostel while they were taking bath.

The issue came to light when one of the women from the hostel saw the boy recording

in a tab from his building. Alerted by the

, others from the hostel went to the building and caught the boy red handed, police said.

The boy was then handed over to the police along with the tab containing multiple videos and photos of women taking bath. “The boy is a IX class student and his house is adjacent to the women’s hostel. From his bathroom window, he could peep into the bathroom of women’s hostel which is hardly one metre away. The boy started video recording the women in his tab,” Madhapur ACP N Shyam Prasad Rao said.

Police said that there are over 3,000 videos and photos in the tab seized from the juvenile. “We have sent the tab to forensic lab for collection of evidence. A case was booked under section 354-C (voyeurism) of the IPC,” Madhapur DCP A Venkateswara Rao said. Police said that the teenager will be produced before the Juvenile Justice Board.