Hyderabad, Feb. 28 -- The Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj cybercrime police station, on Thursday, arrested a 27-year-old man identified as Amit Kumar Jha for recording and uploading videos online of women bathing and changing clothes during the recently concluded Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, attended by millions of pilgrims across the globe.

According to the police statement, Jha, a resident of Baro Khejuria of Magra in West Bengal's Hooghly district, had been filming the women while taking a holy dip at the Sangam and then uploaded these illicit contents on his YouTube channel.

During the police interrogation, Jha admitted to the heinous crime and claimed that he did this to monetize his YouTube channel to gain more followers and earn m...