Navi Mumbai: A 41-year-old man working as a postal assistant was arrested by Vashi GRP for allegedly stalking and secretly video recording a 30-year-old woman colleague on his mobile phone when she was seated with a male friend while travelling in the general compartment of a CSMT-Panvel-bound train on June 30. Kiran Undre, senior inspector of Vashi GRP, said, “The arrested accused has been identified as Kumar Babasaheb Lade, a resident of Chembur, who has been booked under BNS section for the offence of stalking. The complainant woman was travelling in a CSMT-Panvel train to reach her residence in Khandeshwar. She was seated with a male friend in the general compartment adjacent to the middle coach of first-class AC. During the journey, a commuter in the compartment told the woman that the accused was video recording her on his mobile. Hence, she questioned him and when the train reached her destination in Khandeshwar, she and her friend alighted with Lade and then, with the help of a GRP personnel at the station, took Lade to Panvel GRP outpost, where she registered an FIR against Lade. As the incident happened between Vashi and Nerul between 5.45 pm and 6.43 pm, the zero FIR registered by Panvel GRP was transferred to Vashi GRP along with the custody of the detained accused Lade, who was arrested. The accused Lade was produced before CSMT railway court, which remanded him to magisterial custody.”
