Man jailed for filming receptionist as she bathed

dubai — A man, who secretly filmed a woman as she was taking a shower at a staff accommodation in Dubai, has been sentenced to three months in jail. The Dubai Court of First Instance was told that the 21-yearold Indian man, an office assistant, peeped through a small hole in the bathroom wall and filmed the woman with his mobile phone as she took a bath.

The court found the accused guilty of breaching a woman’s modesty and privacy and ordered his deportation. He had earlier denied the charge in court. The incident was reported to Al Rafaa police station on October 10, 2017.

The 28-year-old Filipina complainant, a receptionist, said she did not know whether the accused had filmed her before and she was worried he might have circulated the video clips.

An Indian administration employee at the defendant’s workplace said he and another Arab colleague went to the staff accommodation after he got a call at 1am. “The receptionist was crying, and looked scared and angry. We seized the staff ’s mobile phones, including the defendant’s. They denied filming the woman. But when we told them we would report the incident to the police, the accused eventually admitted he filmed the complainant ‘unintentionally’ three times and then deleted all the clips without watching them.”

The accused admitted he climbed to the small window in his bathroom to secretly film the complainant. He also claimed he had deleted the video clips.