Hidden Cameras Spark Safety Fears Among Women

Haydarabad: Every time a woman enters the trial room of a shopping center, she doesn’t see how she looks like a dress she chooses for himself, but for a spy camera hidden in a mirror or a fan hill or a sensory camera that seems to be hidden in the wall.

A bath mirror, a hostel ceiling, a switch or even a water bottle held in a hotel room. This hidden surveillance device, which does not record unprotected moments, can be hidden anywhere for a woman.

In January 2025, approximately 200 women held a protest at the CMR Engineering College in Medchal and claimed that spy cameras were placed in women’s hostel toilets and rooms. Although the police did not save a accuser material from arrested, the incident stressed an increasing security concern for women.

On September 9, the Teanghana Supreme Court’s counter, chaired by Justice NV Shravan Kumar, after a written petition opened by G. Vahalaxmi, the founder of Homes Society of heaven, referring to the various criminal cases recorded in a way that was recorded illegally on trousers and pants.

Note has given several precautionary measures. He led the unit officers to instruct and instruct them to exhibit stimulating stickers to the spy camera sellers. These stickers will provide information about the 66 (E) section of the Knowledge Technologies Law, which is finished illegally capturing or transmitting the images of a person’s private sphere for up to three years and the images of a person’s private sphere.

According to the latest national criminal records Bureau (NCRB) data (2022), Tahangana recorded a total of 157 x -ray cases under the 354C section of the IPC. However, from the female security wing, the senior officials admitted that the real number was much higher, because such abuse of abuse usually never reached police records.

While this silent crime holds the state, lack of reporting and implementation gaps contribute to the problem.

“The X -ray is the most common in the remote villages due to the social stigmatization in the reporting of the crime. The little girls in schools are often victims of non -consent. However, very little thing is done to instill fear in the minds of the perpetrators.”

In addition to this problem, it is easy to sell and lack of distress on violating. Although these spy cameras need to be sold with a stimulating sticker or a warning, it is widely sold both online (e-commerce portals such as Amazon, Flipkart, E-Bay) and a lack of offline warning.

According to section 4 (1) of the Law of Public Security (Measures) Public Security (Measures), all organizations should ensure that public safety measures are provided appropriate and send compliance letters to the relevant judicial police station with a signed notification form. In this form, the management should declare that all rooms, toilets, toilets and special areas are thoroughly controlled by manual or spy camera detectors and cannot find anything.

Furthermore, Chapter 5 of the Law sends a report to the police inspector, examining and checking public safety measures, “without prior notification” and in case of any default or violation, “Police Commissioner (ACP) or the case may be the regional police officer (SDPO).”

When Deccan Chronicle When the Central Crime Registration Office (CCRB) and some local police stations in Cyberabad were controlled, there was no data on police pressure in any shop that violated public security norms.

In 2024, Hyderabad City police had received an initiative – safe and sure ‘ – where police teams would go to shopping centers, hotels and even women’s hostels and control spy cameras established in any sensitive area. However, a senior official of the city police admitted that such a check is not done at the moment.