Frenzy as authorities fail to switch it off.
By Dileep Thekkethil
BENGALURU: It was an oops! moment for the crowd waiting at a Kalpetta bus stand in Kerala as the television set installed on the walls intended to screen advertisements started to show porn instead: the result of the person in charge of the monitor inserting the wrong pen drive.
The incident came to light after a Reddit user ‘dark0range’ who happened to be in the bus stand when the whole episode unfolded, posted about it in Reddit India. According to him, the porn video played a complete 30 minutes in the TV set placed in the state-run bus depot of Kerala State Transport Corporation. Even though the authorities tried switching off the TV set they couldn’t find the power source nor could they find the keys to the operators’ room, which was locked.
Dark0range wrote in Reddit “Some even tried to put a cloth on the TV, but the sound couldn’t be stopped. Mothers with their children, college girls and some others ran away.”
The bizarre incident came to a stop after someone found an iron rod and struck the power cable. Police later arrested Mansoor, a 38-year-old cable operator who confessed that he inserted a wrong pen drive which had porn videos.
The Circle Inspector of Kalpetta KK Abdul Shereed told the Hindustan Times that they have registered a case against Mansoor and seized his computer.
Mansoor was produced before the court on Wednesday and a case under sections 292 of IPC, amounting to obscene and indecent advertisement and display, the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition Act) and other sections of the IT act have been slapped against him.
If found guilty, Mansoor could end up serving two years’ jail term.