Bois Locker Room

The Delhi High Court Tuesday granted last opportunity to the Centre for replying to a plea seeking directions to it to ensure that social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram remove groups such as "Bois Locker Room", "for the safety and security of children".

One of the girls who had shared screenshots of chats from Instagram group "Bois Locker Room" alleged that she was receiving threats and offensive messages on social media, following which the Delhi Police's Cyber Cell registered an FIR, officials said on Monday.

While the digital exposure of students has increased due to teaching activities moving completely online during the coronavirus-induced lockdown, concerns about the potential threats have been brought to the forefront with the recent "Bois locker room" controversy.

A bench of Justices Rajiv Sahai Endlaw and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal issued notices to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, Information Technology Ministry and Finance Ministry.

The Delhi High Court Monday directed the police to expeditiously conduct its investigation into the incident of "Bois Locker Room", an Instagram group, in which obscene messages and morphed pictures of underage girls were shared.

Delhi High Court on Wednesday adjourned to May 18 hearing on a petition seeking an SIT or CBI investigation into the case related to "Bois Locker Room" social media group, in which a bunch of schoolboys allegedly shared objectionable pictures of minor girls.

A comment about "gang-rape" that sparked huge outrage after the "Bois locker room" Instagram group of Delhi schoolboys was outed last week was never made on that chatroom, the police said on Sunday, revealing a major twist in the scandal.

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Delhi High Court demanding investigation by a Special Investigation Team or the Central Bureau Of Investigation into the "Bois Locker Room", an Instagram group where obscene messages and morphed pictures of underage girls were shared.

Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal on Friday filed a complaint with police after she allegedly received death threats on Twitter.

Online communities like "Bois Locker Room" are commonplace, the 21-year-old man credited with exposing the Instagram group on which obscene messages and morphed photos of underage girls were shared by school students told NDTV on Thursday.

Several Delhi school students have been questioned by the police in the investigations into the "Bois Locker Room", an Instagram group on which obscene messages and morphed photos of underage girls were shared.

Instagram today said it has removed the objectionable content featuring minor girls on its platform, amid the outrage over the content.

"We absolutely do not allow behaviour that promotes sexual violence or exploits anyone, especially women and young people, and have actioned content violating our Community Standards as we were made aware of it," a Facebook spokesperson said.

For this generation living in the social media bubble, easy does it and remorse is rarely part of the vocabulary. Some of the boys threatened to leak nudes of the girls who had disclosed the chats on their Instagram stories.

These boys had bordered on what was perhaps criminal in intent in their remarks and language.To their group, they added girls whose pictures they were posting and when any girl protested, including the one who finally made it public, they threatened her with gang-rape. Through it all, the constant thread of arrogance and confidence that nothing cou...

The Delhi High Court Tuesday granted last opportunity to the Centre for replying to a plea seeking directions to it to ensure that social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram remove groups such as "Bois Locker Room", "for the safety and security of children".

One of the girls who had shared screenshots of chats from Instagram group "Bois Locker Room" alleged that she was receiving threats and offensive messages on social media, following which the Delhi Police's Cyber Cell registered an FIR, officials said on Monday.

While the digital exposure of students has increased due to teaching activities moving completely online during the coronavirus-induced lockdown, concerns about the potential threats have been brought to the forefront with the recent "Bois locker room" controversy.

A bench of Justices Rajiv Sahai Endlaw and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal issued notices to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, Information Technology Ministry and Finance Ministry.

The Delhi High Court Monday directed the police to expeditiously conduct its investigation into the incident of "Bois Locker Room", an Instagram group, in which obscene messages and morphed pictures of underage girls were shared.

Delhi High Court on Wednesday adjourned to May 18 hearing on a petition seeking an SIT or CBI investigation into the case related to "Bois Locker Room" social media group, in which a bunch of schoolboys allegedly shared objectionable pictures of minor girls.

A comment about "gang-rape" that sparked huge outrage after the "Bois locker room" Instagram group of Delhi schoolboys was outed last week was never made on that chatroom, the police said on Sunday, revealing a major twist in the scandal.

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Delhi High Court demanding investigation by a Special Investigation Team or the Central Bureau Of Investigation into the "Bois Locker Room", an Instagram group where obscene messages and morphed pictures of underage girls were shared.

Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal on Friday filed a complaint with police after she allegedly received death threats on Twitter.

Online communities like "Bois Locker Room" are commonplace, the 21-year-old man credited with exposing the Instagram group on which obscene messages and morphed photos of underage girls were shared by school students told NDTV on Thursday.

Several Delhi school students have been questioned by the police in the investigations into the "Bois Locker Room", an Instagram group on which obscene messages and morphed photos of underage girls were shared.

Instagram today said it has removed the objectionable content featuring minor girls on its platform, amid the outrage over the content.

"We absolutely do not allow behaviour that promotes sexual violence or exploits anyone, especially women and young people, and have actioned content violating our Community Standards as we were made aware of it," a Facebook spokesperson said.

For this generation living in the social media bubble, easy does it and remorse is rarely part of the vocabulary. Some of the boys threatened to leak nudes of the girls who had disclosed the chats on their Instagram stories.

These boys had bordered on what was perhaps criminal in intent in their remarks and language.To their group, they added girls whose pictures they were posting and when any girl protested, including the one who finally made it public, they threatened her with gang-rape. Through it all, the constant thread of arrogance and confidence that nothing cou...