Bengaluru, April 27 -- "It is meant for security, not exposure." That line, implicit in the court's reasoning, is not a passing observation. It is the line the law draws when a society begins to confuse surveillance with spectacle, and safety infrastructure with social media content.
The Karnataka High Court on Monday refused to quash criminal proceedings against the man behind an Instagram page titled "Bangalore Metro Chicks," and in doing so, rejected what is now becoming a familiar moral sleight of hand in the digital age: the attempt to pass off voyeurism as surveillance.
The petitioner, BK Diganth, is accused of operating the Instagram handle @metro_chicks, which allegedly uploaded images and videos of women commuters inside the Beng...