Police probe centred around app used by ‘godman’ to access victims’ phone cameras, personal data

At the centre of the police investigation into the arrest of a 29-year-old self-proclaimed godman in Pimpri Chinchwad, accused of sexually abusing several men under the pretense of offering supernatural remedies, is a covert phone-based surveillance and remote access application.

The accused had allegedly installed the app secretly on the victims’ phones and was manipulating them into performing sexual acts on camera and to gain unauthorised access to their personal data and intimate information.