Bengaluru: The Cubbon Park police arrested a 35-year-old retired army man on the charge of stalking and taking photos of a 19-year-old girl at the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) office on Thursday.
The police have identified the retired army man as Senthil Kumar, a resident of Ramachandra Puram. He had taken voluntary retirement in July last year after serving as a gunner in the Army.
According to the complaint filed by the woman, an intern with a national television news channel, she had gone to the KSPCB office on Church Street along with a senior colleague to interview an official of the Lake Development Authority.
Around 4 p.m. while the reporting crew was in the waiting area near the reception, she noticed a man taking photographs of her on his mobile phone. She informed her colleagues, who confronted the man, snatched his phone and found that he had indeed taken photographs of the student.
The police said Senthil claimed to be a journalist with a Tamil daily. The woman and her colleagues lodged a police complaint.
The accused has been remanded in judicial custody.
