A 35-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for taking inappropriate videos of women at public places. The police officer identified the accused as P. Thiyagarajan, a resident of Palaiyur at Pn Palayam. An electrician, he often visited a nearby grocery shop run by a couple on the pretext of buying items. The woman shopkeeper found him filming women customers inappropriately on a couple of occasions and informed her husband, John Johnson, on Tuesday. Johnson caught him filming a woman customer with his mobile phone and handed him over to the police. The race course police checked Thiyagarajan's mobile phone and found the videos. He was involved in taking inappropriate videos of women in other public places too. The police booked Thiyagarajan under various sections of the Information Technology Act and Section 354A Sexual Harassment of the Indian Penal Code later he was lodged in Coimbatore Central Prison under judicial custody.
