Hyderabad Person Detained In Bengaluru Over Pasting Sexually Explicit Materials
A night patrolling team of police personnel came across several stickers with a QR code and obscene messages pasted on street lights poles: Reports
BENGALURU: Bengaluru police have taken a person a resident of Hyderabad into their custody over pasting stickers containing sexually explicit material and a Quick Response (QR) code asking interested public to contact him using the QR code and the stickers were pasted around a prominent shopping mall on McGrath Road of Bengaluru city on Thursday.
The accused is identified by jurisdictional Ashok Nagar police as Shaik Yusuf (47), a resident of M.J. Colony, Malkajgiri, Hyderabad of Telangana.
A night patrolling team of police personnel came across several stickers with a QR code and obscene messages pasted on street lights poles including some on CCTV poles around a prominent shopping mall on McGrath Road the city.
In the meantime, a woman contacted the accused person using the QR code and the accused assured to meet the woman later in the evening near the shopping mall.
The woman alerted the police. Police personnel and the woman waited near the shopping mall for Yusuf to arrive at the designated location.
Unaware of the waiting police personnel, the accused descended on the scene and police personnel were quick to pounce on him to detain him before he was taken into their custody.
A First Information Report has been registered against the accused on Saturday. Police said the act of the accused person to display sexually explicit material adversely affects public decency.
