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Police step up security around Fabindia outlets in Maharashtra

Store worker in Kolhapur held for filming woman

BS Reporter Mumbai
Last Updated : Apr 04 2015 | 10:02 PM IST
The police have stepped up security around Fabindia outlets across Maharashtra to avoid any untoward incident.

“Additional security has been deployed near Fabindia shops and intelligence has been stepped up after a camera was spotted near the trial room of a Fabindia store in Goa by Union minister Smriti Irani on Friday,” police sources told Business Standard.

A worker in a Fabindia store in Kolhapur in south Maharashtra was arrested for allegedly filming a woman customer on his mobile phone, the police said on Saturday. The worker, Prakash Ananda Ispurle, was arrested on April 1 after a woman filed a complaint and was sent to judicial custody, the police said.

The incident, which took place on March 31 in Fabindia's outlet in the Tarabai Park area of Kolhapur, came to light after Irani made an issue of snooping in Fabindia’s store in Candolim at Goa. According to the police, the woman was trying on clothes when Ispurle placed his phone in the gap between the trial room door and the floor. When the customer noticed the phone and raised an alarm, Ispurle pulled out the phone, went to a corner of the store and deleted the recording, the police said. During investigation, police spotted Ispurle in the CCTV footage filming the woman.

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First Published: Apr 04 2015 | 9:37 PM IST

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