A former employee of a private special school and rehabilitation centre in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur was arrested for allegedly circulating CCTV footage of a deaf and mute student, recorded when she was 17, to her father after being dismissed from the institution, police said.
Vipin is currently employed at another rehabilitation centre in Kidwai Nagar. Acting on the complaint, Kakadeo police visited the centre and examined its CCTV cameras and digital video recorder (DVR). The young man, a resident of Kakadeo, was detained and is undergoing a medical examination. He will be produced before a court afterwards. His age has not been disclosed. The centre’s director, who is associated with a leading hospital chain, has also been named in the FIR.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Atul Srivastava said Vipin wanted to defame the institution, which was established in 2009. As the girl was 17 when the footage was recorded last year, police have invoked the POCSO Act, along with the Information Technology Act.
Police said he allegedly recorded the footage after seeing the girl in an objectionable situation and kept it without informing anyone at the centre. The video also shows a young man who was studying at the same centre, police said. Police said they were continuing to investigate the circumstances in which the footage was recorded and circulated, and that further action would depend on the evidence collected.
The case was registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Information Technology Act.
