The Karnataka High Court on Monday dismissed a plea filed by man who runs an Instagram page called 'Bangalore Metro Chicks', seeking to quash criminal proceedings initiated against him. [BK Diganth v. State by Karnataka]

Justice M Nagaprasanna commented while hearing the quashing petition,

"What kind of men are you? You won't leave women anywhere? You don't leave women to be safe anywhere?"

As per a report, the petitioner was arrested in May 2025 for running the Instagram account with the username @metro_chicks. The account hosted videos and images that were secretly recorded without the consent of women commuters in the metro.

A first information report (FIR) for the offences of voyeurism and those under the Information Technology Act was registered against Diganth.

Appearing for the petitioner, Advocate SR Sreeprasad contended that no offence has been committed. It was further contended that the content uploaded by the petitioner is similar to what CCTVs capture.

However, the Court said,

"What CCTV cameras? Clicking women from the back and posting it on Metro Chicks is not an offence?"

The petitioner also contended that the investigating officer was the complainant.

Justice Nagaprasanna said while dismissed the quashing petition,

"No amount of technicalities I will permit such things to happen. Technicalities cannot override such acts of yours. Time has come that we should stop technicalities on certain things."