BANGALORE: An acupuncture practitioner was arrested on Wednesday, November 16, on complaints of sexually harassing women patients at his clinic in Mathikere area in Bangalore. The name of the accused was as Venkatanarayana.
On the pretext of treatment, Venkatnarayana used to demand that women and girls remove their clothing under the guise of therapy before touching them indecently. He recorded patient films on his mobile device while doing this, said the police.
The cases were registered against him in Yeshwanthpur, Basavanagudi and Cyber Crime police stations respectively in Bangalore after which he fled the scene.
The accused was apprehended from Tadipatri near Gutti in Andhra Pradesh by a special team the police agency assembled.
Investigations revealed that the accused completed his education through class twelve and spent the following ten years working as a commercial manager in a private company. In a workshop, he met a doctor who gave him instruction in acupuncture.
He founded an acupuncture clinic after completing two years of training.
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