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• September 2003 A web camera was found by two girls in the changing room of Pune's Sanskrit Vid... New gadget finds secret cam

• September 2003 A web camera was found by two girls in the changing room of Pune's Sanskrit Vidyavikas Vidyalaya swimming pool. The manager and peon were held.

• March 2005 A honeymooning couple in Park Plaza hotel, Ludhiana found hidden cameras planted in the room mirror. Hotel employees were running a porn racket through several cameras in different rooms.

• September 2005 Beauty doctor Pradip Parmar is caught on film having sex with alleged patient and accused of running a racket. A clinic staffer reveals that the girls didn't know they were being filmed.

Hidden cameras may be spreading like fungus in hotels, massage parlours, clinics or even within your four walls, but a new detector seeks them out with incessant beeping. What's more, its takers aren't limited to cautious women. Government officials and even politicians, wary of sting operations, are booking the device.

Tinseltown's lured already. Ever since the morphed video of Preity Zinta showering surfaced, Bollywood has become nervous of peeping toms and public spaces. Says No Entry star Celina Jaitley, “People are happy now to just see an actress adjust her T-shirt on MMS. I recently went to a city (in India) where the crowd was wild.

The ‘hidden camera detector' is powered by a small alkaline battery (Rs 20) that lasts upto 32 hours at a stretch and covers a six-metre radius (about two rooms). This lightweight piece is an Asian import with Japanese parts. It's set off if it perceives either a mobile phone or a camera in the room.

The device went off near photographic equipment when Sunday Mid Day tested it. It's priced at just above Rs 2,000 depending on the number of pieces you take.

Tech experts the world over review that such a detector is hardly foolproof even if it does sense wireless and pinhole cameras. It can't control MMSes though — the incessant beeping is restricted to cameras. But remember, it does flash you an alert if there's a cellphone nearby.

Deputy Commissioner (Police) Dr Sanjay Apranti who also doesn't know of a detector points out that many of the pornography rackets he handles at the cybercrime and social services branch involve hidden cameras.

The pocket detector caught the eye of furniture and toy parts importers Pankaj and Dilip at a technology exhibition. They decided to import on a test basis, after hearing horror stories of camera invasion.

A sting operation in this issue's Tehelka features a hidden camera recording of an Agra doctor certifying women insane for a price, but its editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal is far from dismayed at news of the device.

A ‘stung' Shakti Kapoor though admits he already procured the device at a London spyware shop after his casting couch debacle in March. “The world should buy it! I bought mine for 240 pounds. It's smaller than a pencil and it gives out vibrations,” says the ‘armed' actor.

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