Kolkata: Cops start probe into Jadavpur University girl’s online abuse

KOLKATA: The cybercrime department of Kolkata Police has registered a complaint following a 22-year-old Jadavpur University student’s allegation that some unknown men had outraged her modesty on social media.
“We have received her complaint and are verifying the facts. We will also speak to the victim and others she has mentioned in the complaint,” said a senior police officer.
The victim, a resident of Regent Park in South Kolkata, said cops had called her up on Wednesday night after she had apprised the cybercrime department of the online abuse through email. She alleged that some unknown men had shared her pictures on Instagram and Whatsapp groups and made derogatory remarks on her body parts.
The incident came a day after Delhi police had arrested the administrator of an Instagram private chat group named Bois Locker Room, where teenage boys planned gangrape and made random derogatory remarks on girls. The JU student claimed that earlier in January, she had received a text message on her Instagram chat from an unknown youth who had sent her a screenshot of a Whatsapp chat.
“The screenshot had a photograph of mine where men commented on my private parts and were verbally fantasizing of sexually assaulting me. The youth told me that he was from my university. I blocked him,” she said.