PANAJI: Four employees of a Fabindia outlet were arrested this evening in connection with the hidden camera incident while top bosses of the ethnic lifestyle brand tomorrow will be questioned by police.
The employees, working at Fabindia-owned outlet at Candolim village near here – who were earlier detained for questioning – were put under arrest in the evening, Karthik Kashyap, SP of Goa Crime Branch, said.
They were booked under IPC Sections 354 C (voyeurism), 509 (intrusion into privacy) and also IT Act’s 66E (capturing, publishing image of private area of any person without his/her consent). They were identified as Paresh Bhagat, Raju Payanche, Prashant Naik and Karim Lakhani.
While trying clothes at the outlet, Union Minister Smriti Irani spotted the hidden camera positioned to record inside of the small room of the niche clothing store.
Later, an FIR was filed against employees who were monitoring the cameras.
“We will also be questioning all the top bosses of Fabindia, including its CEO and MD (William Bissell),” Kashyap said. -PTI
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