Gujar Khan police arrested a head agent for allegedly recording women in the bathrooms of the Tehsil Hospital and has begun an investigation, authorities said on Friday.
Talking with Dawn.comSuperintendent Police Assistant, Syed Daniyal said: “The police received a complaint from a resident who said the suspect, a service manager published in the Punjab Police Lahore office, was allegedly involved in the filming of women while using the bathrooms in the hospital neighborhoods.”
Police arrested the hospital suspect and also recovered his cell phone, he said.
“It was during a preliminary investigation that the police discovered that the suspect was a service officer.”
Police said that several committed videos of women who used the bathrooms on their cell phone had been sent for forensic verification.
Asp Daniyal later said Dawn.com that the injured party has transferred a request for cyber induction against the agent. “The matter is already in process with the Federal Research Agency, which is the relevant forum for the case,” he added.
Gujar Khan Station House Official Nazeer Ahmed Ghaeba said Dawn.com That police would investigate the case for merit and no favor or clemency would be exhibited.
Police have registered the case by virtue of sections 354 (assault or use of the criminal force to a woman and stripping her of her clothes) and 292 (sale, etc. of obscene books, etc.), and section 509 (insulting the modesty or causing sexual harassment) of the Pakistan Criminal Code.
When he approached him to comment, the medical superintendent of the Hospital of the Headquarters of Tehsil (MS), Dr. Sarmad Kiyani, said there were no cameras in the hospital bathrooms.
“The only cameras in the hospital are in the halls, not in the bathrooms. We do not know what kind of videos they found on their phone. It is up to the police to investigate the matter,” he said.
Asp Daniyal also told him Dawn.com that the suspect had been previously reserved by rape, but the case was dismissed.
According to the first information report (FIR) of case 2020, seen by Dawn.comThe suspect had allegedly violated a widow and was reserved under section 452 (progress of the house after the preparation by injured, assault or unfair restriction), section 354 (assault or criminal force to a woman with the intention of indignanting her modesty) and section 34 (actuas made by several people) of the PPC.
However, he had reconciled with the victim, so the case was withdrawn and reinstated, according to the ASP.
Meanwhile, residents have urged the main minister of Punjab, Maryam Nawaz, to take a serious notification of such incidents in government hospitals.
In March, Swabi’s police arrested a Tiktoker for making videos and photos of women and girls while bought and uploaded them to their account.
A similar incident occurred in Khanewal in December, where a suspicious allegedly filmed women with customers in the locker room of a clothing retailer in Khanewal with his mobile phone. He was later sent to judicial request.
Last June, the police presented a case against the owners and the staff of a private shelter for girls in the city of Johar de Lahore to record videos of residents through hidden cameras installed in the bathrooms, which causes apprehensions that these clips can be sold and use in the ‘dark network’ or social networks.
