Male nurse arrested for filming his co-workers, docs in changing room

Male nurse arrested for filming his co-workers, docs in changing room

Accused Is A Contract Worker

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Bengaluru:23.02.2021 

Tilaknagar police on Sunday arrested a male nurse on charges of secretly recording videos of women doctors and nurses by placing his mobile phone in recording mode inside a changing room near the operation theatre at a government hospital.

The accused is Maruthesh, 31, a resident of Jayanagar and from Chitradurga. Maruthesh was appointed as a nurse on contract basis at the government-run Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedics in souther n Bengaluru.

According to police, the incident came to light around 9.30am on Friday, when a 28-year-old doctor entered the room to change her dress. She found a mobile phone in the room and learnt that some miscreant had placed it secretly in video-recording mode. The young doctor checked the phone’s gallery. She found a few videos of nurses and other women employees changing clothes. She found that the miscreant had deleted many such videos.

“The doctor restored several deleted videos from the recycle bin. We learnt that the mobile phone belonged to Maruthesh, a staff nurse appointed on contract basis. He had recorded the videos,” the institute director alleged in his complaint filed on Saturday.

Never shared videos: Miscreant

Tilaknagar police registered a case under IPC section 354C (voyeurism) and 201 (destroying evidence) against Marutesh, who confessed to his crime. He allegedly recorded the videos for personal viewing. “Marutesh claimed that he never shared the videos with any one. We have seized his mobile phone for forensic investigation, which may reveal how many videos he recorded, whether he shared them with anyone before he deleted them and other information,” said police.

Police produced Maruthesh before court, which remanded him in judicial custody.

A young doctor entered the changing room and found a mobile phone inside. She checked the phone’s gallery and found videos of nurses and other women employees changing clothes. Maruthesh had also deleted many of them