Delhi Police arrests four men for sending objectionable messages to Barkha Dutt; journalist had filed FIR in Feb after online abuse
FirstpostResponding to the arrests, Barkha Dutt tweeted that 10 more numbers had been listed by her in the FIR and she will follow up on the case until each one of them is jailed. The Delhi Police’s cyber crime cell has arrested four men for sending objectionable messages to journalist Barkha Dutt following an FIR filed by her in February for online abuse, blackmail and sexual harassment against several people who sent her obscene messages and threats on WhatsApp after her phone number was circulated on Twitter in the aftermath of the Pulwama attacks. According to reports, Barkha’s FIR said that she appeared to have been made a “victim of some fake news propaganda” and that her personal number was shared on social media platforms after which she was sent “nude pictures and sexually abusive text messages”. Thereafter, on 19 February, the National Commission for Women had asked Delhi Commissioner of Police Amulya Patnaik to initiate a “speedy investigation” into the harassment faced by Dutt on social media. Four men arrested by Delhi Police cyber cell for stalking me, sexually abusing me, sending me nude/D#ck pictures and in one case threatening to kill me.