Temple priest gets life imprisonment for recording obscene videos of girls, selling them to foreigners
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Updated - November 01, 2026 07:46 pm IST - Mathura (U.P.)
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A court in Mathura has sentenced a priest to life imprisonment for recording obscene videos of adolescent girls who visited the temple where he worked and selling them to foreigners, a government lawyer said on Sunday (November 1, 2026).
In the judgment announced on Friday (October 30), Additional District and Sessions Judge Mathura Brijesh Kumar also imposed a fine of ₹1.43 lakh on the convict, Shyam Bihari, Assistant Advocate Rampal Singh said.
Based on information received from Interpol, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had registered an FIR on June 17, 2025. Subsequently, the agency arrested the priest from a temple in a village under the Jaint police station area in Mathura, Mr. Singh said.
The CBI investigation revealed that the priest would lure girls visiting the temple into a room on the pretext of offering them 'prasad'. Once they were inside the room, he would engage in obscene acts with them and record videos of these, according to the prosecution.
Mr. Singh said the priest would then sell these videos online to individuals living abroad. This is how the matter came to the attention of Interpol, which subsequently alerted the government of India.
The CBI completed its investigation within a month and filed a chargesheet in court on August 18, 2025.
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