Bengaluru: Viral video of assault on motorist uncovers false blackmail claims
Bengaluru: A video clip showing a motorist being detained by a group of men, who accused him of blackmailing a woman by fitting a camera in the geyser of her bathroom, has gone viral on social media. However, a police probe into the incident has revealed the allegations to be false.
The video, titled ‘Man fits camera in geyser, blackmails woman’, surfaced on Saturday and shows the men chasing the motorist on a road in Electronic City on Friday night. They blocked his way, detained him, and removed his helmet. In the video, demands for police intervention can also be heard, according to a report by The Times of India.
One of the men is seen grabbing the motorist by the collar and alleging that he had installed a camera in the woman’s bathroom geyser to blackmail her with intimate videos and photos. The woman, appearing to be in her 20s, supported the claim and accused the motorist of blackmailing her. Following this, the group took matters into their own hands, encouraging the woman to slap the motorist with her footwear, which she did.
Onlookers, however, informed the police, who arrived at the scene and took the motorist, the woman, and the group to the police station, where the narrative took an unexpected turn.
The police, sceptical of the claims, questioned the feasibility of a camera functioning inside a geyser due to the heat. The motorist, insisting on his innocence, denied the accusations and called them false.
As inconsistencies in the story emerged, a woman officer was assigned to privately question the woman. During the interrogation, the woman admitted that she had taken her own nude photos and sent them to the motorist during an ongoing affair. When the affair came to light, the woman reportedly tried to protect herself by claiming to her husband and others that the man had obtained her photos without her knowledge and was blackmailing her.
The police asked the woman to file a formal complaint, but she refused. The motorist also declined to lodge a case against the group that had detained him. By midnight, all parties left the station without filing any complaints.
A senior police officer described the incident as "an affair that spiralled out of control."
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Wangchuk not given videos which formed basis of his detention: Wife to SC
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New Delhi (PTI): Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk's wife Gitanjali J Angmo alleged in the Supreme Court on Thursday that four videos which formed the basis of her husband's detention were not shown to him and only the thumbnails on pen drive were displayed.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing in the court for Angmo, told a bench of justices Aravind Kumar and Prasanna B Varale that not supplying the videos violated Wangchuk's right to effective representation before the advisory board as well as the government.
"It is now alleged by the State that that DIG came with a laptop and shown four videos. The laptop was provided to detenue on October 5, 2025, but those four vidoes were not there.
"Let us assume they showed it to be, that is not the requirement of law. The requirement is to give it to me. They have to provide the document, I don't have to ask. It is there constitutional duty to supply. We have said that time and again that the four was never supplied," Sibal said.
Another lawyer assisting Sibal informed the court that the pen drive was inserted in the laptop before Wangchuk and he only saw the thumbnails.
"The videos were not actually played. None of the thumbnails were actually clicked," the lawyer said.
Additional Solicitor General KM Nataraj submitted that there is a video in which the conversation with the DIG and detenue will show everything.
The top court said it see the relevant video recordings, including a 40-minute video of the interaction between police officials and the detenue.
The matter is now posted for hearing on February 23.
On Monday, the apex court had questioned the Centre about the transcripts of videos submitted by it against Wangchuk and said the translations should be precise in the age of artificial intelligence.
It had told Nataraj that it wanted actual transcripts of Wangchuk's statements from the government after Sibal submitted that some of the words attributed to the activist were never said by him.
The top court was hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by Wangchuk's wife, Gitanjali Angmo, seeking a declaration that his detention under the National Security Act (NSA), 1980, is illegal.
The NSA empowers the Centre and the states to detain individuals to prevent them from acting in a manner "prejudicial to the defence of India."
The maximum detention period is 12 months, though it can be revoked earlier. Angmo said the violence in Leh on September 24 last year cannot be attributed in any manner to the actions or statements of Wangchuk.
Wangchuk himself condemned the violence through his social media handles and categorically said it would lead to the failure of Ladakh's "tapasya" and its peaceful pursuit of five years, Angmo said, adding that it was the saddest day of his life.
