The accused insisted that watching a lady bathing outside a jhuggi that constituted a covered four-walled structure with a curtain (instead of a door) was not an offence under Section 354C of the Indian Penal Code - the offence of 'any man [our italics] who watches, or captures the image of a woman engaging in a private act in circumstances where she would usually have the expectation of not being observed either by the perpetrator or by any other person at the behest of the perpetrator or disseminates such image' - because it was an 'open public space'
