DHAKA, Oct 16, (AFP): A court in Bangladesh has ordered all beauty parlours to remove security cameras from their premises after a top salon was caught filming a woman as she changed, a state prosecutor said.
The scandal at a Persona salon caused outcry in Muslim-majority Bangladesh and police interviewed company owner Kaniz Almas Khan, a woman who runs a chain of successful beauty parlours in Bangladesh and Thailand.

Khan said close circuit camera televisions are stationed in all Persona rooms for security reasons, but a female doctor last week complained to police that she was filmed by a hidden camera in a dressing room.
Local police have since seized the camera and the recording as they investigate.

Following an outpouring of anger in local papers and online, the High Court “ordered all the country’s beauty parlours to remove cameras from all their service rooms,” assistant attorney general Samarendra Nath Biswas told AFP.

The court also asked the government to formulate a policy on the use of CCTV in sensitive places such as beauty parlours, he said.

Khan, who is a respected businesswoman in the conservative country, made headlines in 2009 when she organised beauty and personal grooming lessons for new police recruits.