Four Fabindia employees have been chargesheeted in connection with a snooping incident, in which Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Smiriti Irani had alleged in 2015, that a CCTV camera was being used to film the interiors of a trial room at the fashion chain’s store in a North Goa beach village.
Superintendent of Police (Crime Branch) Karthik Kashyap told reporters, here that the chargesheet which was filed sometime back and that top officials of the firm are not linked to the snoopgate incident which occurred in 2015.
“A chargesheet was filed a month ago in connection with that incident,” Kashyap told reporters.
Those who have been chargesheeted by the police are Paresh Bhagat, Prashant Naik, Karim lakhani and Raju Payancha, who have been earlier arrested and released on bail.
Kashyap said, that the chargesheet was filed under sections 354 (assault, force with intent to outrage her modesty), 354 C (voyeurism), 509 (privacy intrusion) of the IPC and 66 E (punishment for violation of privacy) of the IT Act, 2000.
The sensational incident had occurred in April 2015, when Irani, who was then in-charge of the Human Resource Development portfolio, during a visit to the Fabindia store in the popular beach village of Candolim in North Goa, had alleged that a CCTV camera was positioned in order to snoop on the goings-on in the trial room, which she had also frequented.