MUMBAI, May 5 — Delhi police were today investigating an online chat group that made light of gang-rape and caused a backlash on social media over trivialising sexual assault, with one teenage boy questioned. An Instagram chat group called “bois locker room” was the top trending hashtag on...
Tuesday, 05 May 2020 07:48 PM MYTMUMBAI, May 5 — Delhi police were today investigating an online chat group that made light of gang-rape and caused a backlash on social media over trivialising sexual assault, with one teenage boy questioned.
“Based on the information online and our technical investigation, we identified a boy and apprehended him,” Anyesh Roy, deputy commissioner of police in the Delhi Police’s cyber crime unit told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. On Monday, the state-run Delhi Commission for Women issued a notice to the police requesting action be taken against the members of the chat group, and sent another notice to Instagram seeking details of the group’s members.
In India one woman reported a rape every 15 minutes on average in 2018, according to government data, underlining the country’s dismal reputation as one of the worst places in the world to be female.
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