The Supreme Court observed that an act of clicking a woman's pictures and making her videos on a mobile phone without her consent, when is not indulging in a "private act", would not attract an offence of voyeurism under Section 354C IPC.

Holding thus, a bench of Justices N Kotiswar Singh and Manmohan discharged a man, accused of intimidating the complainant by clicking her photos and making videos on his mobile phone, which she claimed that his act intruded upon her privacy and outraged her modesty.

On March 19, 2020, the complainant, filed an FIR against the appellant-accused. The complaint was registered under Sections 341, 354C, and 506 of the Indian Penal Code. It was alleged that on March 18, 2020, when she, along with her friend and some workmen, attempted to enter the property,

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