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Kundalahalli

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He was caught filming three women washing clothes on the terrace of PG accommodationLift mechanic held for filming womenand a homemaker became unlikely allies and put paid to a lift mechanic’s voyeuristic tendencies. How the 32-year-old resident of Rupen Agrahara was caught and sent behind bars is a story in itself.S Salman, the accused, had gone to Ravi Paradise PG located at Annaiah Reddy in, to service the lift on Saturday morning. There, a bunch of techies were doing their laundry on the terrace. The police allege that Salman, along with two technicians, went to the terrace and started filming the women on his mobile phone.“A 24-year-old woman noticed that Salman was behaving suspiciously. She then saw him pointing his mobile phone towards her. She observed his behavior for almost 20 minutes and then confronted him. When she checked his phone, she realized that Salman had been filming her washing her clothes all this while,” said a police officer who is part of the investigations.Salman knew his game was up and started to flee. But thegave chase and managed to seize his phone.The lift technician then started pleading with the woman to not inform the hostel management. By this time, the news had spread throughout the hostel and the PG owner and some other women had gathered around the accused. The two technicians with Salman also tried to convince the woman not to escalate the matter.But the techie stood firm. She asked him to unlock the phone so that she could check the other videos. The accused used this opportunity to try to delete the videos and the woman shouted at him. The PG owner slapped him and things started heating up. The three men then managed to escape.“The owner called the manager who had sent the three lift mechanics. He rushed to the hostel and tried contacting the accused, but in vain. He informed Salman’s wife and informed her about Salman had done,” the officer said.On Monday evening, Salman’s wife, a homemaker, brought him to the police station, disgusted with what he had done. The couple have two children, including a girl.On checking his phone, the police found four videos of different women washing clothes. All the videos are of two to three minutes duration. Salman has been booked under Section 354C of the IPC for watching or capturing the image of a woman.