At the Jharkhand railway station Jharkhand there was a disturbing incident involving an operator of a massage chair accused of secret recording a woman while using the device. The incident caused outrage, especially after a video capturing part of the meeting recorded Brut India and spread on social media.
The video shows that a woman is facing an operator of a massage chair about secret shooting. When the operator was silent, the man accompanied the woman confronted and physically attacked the operator. The woman then demanded that the operator convened the manager to solve the matter.
Railway officials reportedly realized the incident, although it remains unclear whether a formal measure was taken against the accused operator.
Under Indian law, the filming of a person in public space is not illegal in itself; However, abuse of such a scope is punished by the Act on Information Technology, with sanctions including up to three years imprisonment and/or fines £2 lakh.
The video shared by India brut lit a large outrage of the public, with Netizens condemning the invasion of privacy and demanding strict responsibility for the participants.
The user shared a similar example: “People constantly record me without my consent because I am a stranger in India. I will always stand with them on the spot and I am ready to fight. But I understand that not every lady is ready for it. It should not.”
Another user asked, “Why isn’t there a law against it?”
“The problem is in technology that has been achieved by each individual before education and the basic civic sense,” wrote the third user.
“The protection of personal data is a joke in our country,” he wrote fourth on Instagram.
The fifth user wrote: “And the court system is worried about the street dogs!”
(Tagstotranslate) invasion of privacy
