Published on : 03 Dec 2025, 2:29 pm 4 min read

The Supreme Court recently held that clicking photos or recording videos of a woman without her permission during non-private acts does not amount to voyeurism under Section 354C of the Indian Penal Code [ Tuhin Kumar Biswas vs. The State of West Bengal ].

A bench of Justices NK Singh and Manmohan close the case against a man who had been booked for voyeurism solely for recording a video of a woman while she was entering a disputed property.

While doing so, the bench said that the police and trial court ought to have be more careful while filing a chargesheet and framing charges against the man for voyeurism, particularly in the absence of strong suspicion to support the offence.

It noted that pushing cases forward without

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