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Apr 05 2015 : The Times of India (Delhi)

Cops: Fabindiacam focusedintentionally ontrial room

Mapusa:TIMES NEWS NETWORK TNN

The Goa crime branch told a court on

Saturday that the CCTV camera at

Candolim's Fabindia outlet was

“intentionally focused to capture the

images (of women) while changing clothes

in the trial room and to view

subsequently“.Pointing out that the

modesty of women who changed clothes

in the trial room had been outraged, the

agency stated that the act also intruded

women's privacy .

“All the accused persons involved in

this crime had positioned the camera at

the secret vantage point and committed

the act without the women knowing of the

same...that she is being watched,“ the

crime branch said in its report.

The crime branch stated that during

their course of investigation they found

out that the captured images were viewed

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by the accused and others. The custodial

in terrogation of the accused was,

therefore, sought “to know whether those

images had been disseminated via email,

WhatsApp, Facebook etc“ and to find out

the whereabouts of the store manager,

who is absconding.

“This incident has secured national

attention and created fear in the minds of

women who have visited the Fabindia

store at Candolim and used the trial room

for changing clothes. Most of the accused

are presently at large and only

interrogation would reveal the names of

those involved in the crimes,“ they said.

The Fabindia staffs were also accused

of attempting to destroy evidence by

“trying to shift the position of one of the

cameras used in the commission of this

offence“.

Four accused employees granted bail;

CEO, MD seek time to join investigation

A local court at Mapusa on Saturday

granted bail to all the four accused

Fabindia staff, arrested by the police on

Friday, even as Fabindia MD William

Bissell and CEO Subrata Dutta sought

time to join the probe. The court directed

the release of the accused, Paresh Bhagat,

Prashant Naik, Karim Lakhani and Raju

Payancha, all section incharges, on

furnishing of bail bonds and ordered them

not to leave Goa or tamper with evidence.

“It was a simple camera and not a hidden

or spy camera. It was argued that section

354 (assault or criminal force on woman

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with intent to outrage her modesty) of

IPC was not applicable in the case ,“

defence advocate Raju Povlekar told STOI.

The court held that the grounds for

custodial interrogation were not made

specific by the investigation officer.

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