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Journalist Gets Rape Threats & Over 20,000 Abusive Tweets!

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OB Bureau

Mumbai: A journalist-author registered a complaint with Mumbai Police after being the target of rape and death threats, morphed tweets on Twitter.

In her complaint filed to the Crime Branch’s cyber police, she stated that more than 20,000 abusive tweets have been posted on her Twitter handle and other social media profiles. These posts include rape and death threats from those who don’t agree with her opinions, she claimed.

Fake social media profiles were created in her name from which obscene were posted, including one which said the complainant is jailed in Saudi Arabia for providing fake news.

The FIR was lodged under IPC sections 354(a) (sexual harassment), 506(2) (death threats), 509 (intentional insult with word or act or gesture to insult modesty), 500 (defamation) along with 66C (impersonating using computer resource) and 67 (transmitting obscene content in electronic form) of IT Act against four Twitter and two Instagram accounts, reported The Indian Express.

“An offence has been registered at West Region Cyber Police Station,” said DCP, cyber, Rashmi Karandikar.

The journalist hoped for quick action against the culprits.

OB Bureau

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