PRAYAGRAJ, Sept. 1 -- The Allahabad high court has raised serious concerns over "male gym trainers imparting training to female clients without adequate safeguards to ensure the safety and dignity of women."

Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav made the observation while hearing an appeal filed by a gym trainer Nitin Saini who has been accused of using a caste-based slur against a woman client. An FIR was registered by the woman at the Brahmpuri police station of Meerut in 2024.

The court has fixed September 8 as the next date of hearing in the case.

The victim, in her statement before the trial court, had alleged that the accused had prepared obscene videos of another woman who went to the gym and had been sending such obscene material to that...