In view of the detection of a secret camera outside the trial room in a multinational company outlet in Goa by Union HRD minister Smriti Irani, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has directed that the concerned police station in-charge would be held responsible if such secret cameras are found in the shops, malls or other places. Government sources confirmed that Yadav had directed the state DGP, AK Jain and other concerned officials, to check the camera points in the fashion stores and other places. ‘’Such thing is a black spot in our society and it should be stopped,’’ the CM reportedly pointed. Sources said that the concerned police station in-charges would be held responsible if such thing happens.
The statement comes as a relief to the people of the state as many cases of black-mailing of females by clicking their photos secretly had been already reported in many districts. It may be mentioned that an alert Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday raised an alarm after she spotted a hidden camera at an outlet of a leading garment store that was pointed towards the trial room she used while trying out some clothes that led to a case of voyeurism being filed and arrest of four employees. Four staff members of the Fabindia-owned outlet at the upmarket boutique chain at Candolim near here, who were earlier detained, were arrested by Goa police following a complaint by BJP MlA Michael lobo who was called by Irani after the incident.
Meanwhile the state government will felicitate 12-year-old Mariyam Asif Siddiqui for emerging topper at a contest on Bhagwad Gita in Mumbai. “Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has decided to felicitate Siddiqui for attaining first position in the written examination conducted to assess knowledge of Gita among children. She would be felicitated soon,” an official spokesman said here on Saturday. It would give a good message of respecting all religions in the society, the spokesman said. Siddiqui, a sixth-grade student of Mumbai-based school, won the “Shrimad Bhagwad Gita Champion league”organised by ISKCON International Society beating around 4,500 students.