Goan activist Shreha Dhargalkar condemns ‘breach of privacy’ of Mumbai actor Rayya Labib, demands stringent action

MAPUSA: Goan activist and woman’s rights campaigner Shreha Dhargalkar has condemned in very strong words the ‘breach of privacy’ and leaking of private changing room security camera images (or mobile phone images) of a Mumbai-based actor Rayya Labib, while she was shooting at a resort in North Goa last week.

The shoot was completed over the weekend and actor Rayya Labib returned to Mumbai on Sunday evening. The hazy or blurred images (and a 10-second mms clip)  of a woman changing her clothes and exposing her breasts, nipples and butt, went viral first on WhatsApp and then spread on various social media platforms as “actress changing clothes in Goa resort”.  The leaked images (censored) can be viewed here.

“The people responsible for this breach of privacy of a woman must be promptly arrested. This is a criminal act. The woman was changing her clothes in a closed area and someone either misused the security camera images or purposely clicked photographs with a mobile phone of the incident, exposing the woman’s body and then circulated the same on WhatsApp and other social media platforms. This is a criminal offence. Such people who bring a bad name to Goa must be severely punished,” Shreha said.

According to Rayya she was shocked to find a couple of raw photos or images from the changing room of the film shoot, which show her changing her clothes. Along with the stills, a short mms clip of the changing room is also doing the rounds on social media, her management informed.

“None of us were allowed to click any photos or selfies, we had to deposit our mobile phones at the security counter, so I do not know who clicked the photos. I think it was someone from the makeup team or maybe the production and security team,” Rayya told this website.

Rayya who returned to Mumbai has asked her lawyers to take appropriate legal action against the ‘privacy breach’. Read more here.