NOIDA: A 26-year-old MBA student was arrested on Monday for allegedly sending a video of him masturbating to a 20-year-old woman living in a Noida highrise, said police. The woman, who knew the accused, said that the video sent on WhatsApp traumatised her.
According to police, the incident took place on March 21. The complainant had been friends with the accused for the past two years but recently stopped talking to him because she did not like his behaviour. However, the man allegedly asked her to accompany him to the gym on March 19, and she agreed, thinking she should give him a chance.
“We received a complaint on Sunday (March 27), where a woman said that she had been friends with a 26-year-old man for the past two years but then stopped talking with him. Recently, when she spoke to the man again, he asked her to develop a physical relationship with him, which she rejected. The woman told him that she only wanted to stay friends with him and gave him her number so they could restart a friendship,” Vivek Trivedi, the station-in charge of phase-3 police station.
However, around 2.40 am on March 21, the accused sent her the obscene video using the WhatsApp disappearing message feature. “When I opened the message, it was a video of him masturbating. I went into shock and trauma and decided to report it to the police,” the woman said in her complaint.
Police then filed an FIR against the accused under sections 354 (outraging the modesty of a woman) and 509 (insulting a woman's modesty through words, gestures or an act) of the IPC. “A team was formed to nab the accused, and he was arrested from the Garhi roundabout in Sector 61 on Monday morning. The accused is an MBA student at a private university. He was produced before the magistrate and sent to judicial custody,” the SHO said.
The National Commission for Women (NCW) has received nearly 31,000 complaints of crimes committed against women in 2021. Of the 30,864 complaints, Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest number of complaints at 15,828, followed by Delhi at 3,336, Maharashtra at 1,504, Haryana at 1,460, and Bihar at 1,456.
