Bengaluru: Man held for clicking photo of woman on metro station

BENGALURU: A 30-year-old security guard of a cricket stadium near Makali off Tumakuru Road was arrested by Bagalagunte police on Tuesday for allegedly clicking photographs of a woman at Nagasandra Metro station.
Police identified the accused as Ramachandra, a resident of Bagalagunte and from Odisha, who worked as a security guard with a private firm and was deployed at KSCA’s stadium near Makali.
Police said the incident took place around 5.45pm on Tuesday when the 24-year-old woman, a resident of Bhuvaneshwari Nagar off Hesaraghatta Main Road, was sitting inside the Nagasandra Metro Station on Tumakuru.
She had reached there from Ulsoor in Metro rail and was waiting for her friends. The accused clicked her pictures on his mobile. The woman came to know of it as he had failed to turn off the flash while clicking pictures.
The woman objected to Ramachandra’s conduct and asked him why he was taking her picture. He denied it, but took to his heels as she asked him to show the photo gallery on his device. The woman chased the accused and caught him with the help of public.