NOIDA: A 26-year-old MBA pupil was arrested on Monday for allegedly sending a video of him masturbating to a 20-year-old girl residing in a Noida highrise, stated police. The girl, who knew the accused, stated that the video despatched on WhatsApp traumatised her.
In response to police, the incident befell on March 21. The complainant had been mates with the accused for the previous two years however not too long ago stopped speaking to him as a result of she didn't like his behaviour. Nevertheless, the person allegedly requested her to accompany him to the fitness center on March 19, and she or he agreed, considering she ought to give him an opportunity.
“We acquired a grievance on Sunday (March 27), the place a girl stated that she had been mates with a 26-year-old man for the previous two years however then stopped speaking with him. Just lately, when she spoke to the person once more, he requested her to develop a bodily relationship with him, which she rejected. The girl instructed him that she solely needed to remain mates with him and gave him her quantity so they might restart a friendship,” Vivek Trivedi, the station-in cost of phase-3 police station.
Nevertheless, round 2.40 am on March 21, the accused despatched her the obscene video utilizing the WhatsApp disappearing message characteristic. “Once I opened the message, it was a video of him masturbating. I went into shock and trauma and determined to report it to the police,” the lady stated in her grievance.
Police then filed an FIR in opposition to the accused below sections 354 (outraging the modesty of a girl) and 509 (insulting a girl's modesty by means of phrases, gestures or an act) of the IPC. “A group was shaped to nab the accused, and he was arrested from the Garhi roundabout in Sector 61 on Monday morning. The accused is an MBA pupil at a non-public college. He was produced earlier than the Justice of the Peace and despatched to judicial custody,” the SHO stated.
The Nationwide Fee for Girls (NCW) has acquired almost 31,000 complaints of crimes dedicated in opposition to ladies in 2021. Of the 30,864 complaints, Uttar Pradesh recorded the very best variety of complaints at 15,828, adopted by Delhi at 3,336, Maharashtra at 1,504, Haryana at 1,460, and Bihar at 1,456.