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Mumbai. Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said on Saturday that photographs of hundreds of Muslim women have been uploaded on an app using hosting platform GitHub. Chaturvedi said that he has taken up the matter with the Mumbai Police and demanded that the culprits should be arrested at the earliest. He tweeted, ‘(I have spoken to) Mumbai Police Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rashmi Karandikar ji. They will check it. (I) have also spoken to the Director General of Police (DGP) of Maharashtra to intervene. Hope those behind such wrong site will be caught.
He said, ‘I have requested the Minister of Information Technology, Hon’ble Ashwini Vaishnav ji several times to take strict action against those who are targeting women through platforms like SulliDeals. It is a shame that it is being ignored.’ Reacting to the development, Mumbai Police said that it has taken cognizance of the matter and the concerned authorities have been asked to take action. An official said that the Mumbai Cyber Police has started investigation in relation to the objectionable material.
Earlier, a woman journalist with Delhi Police on Saturday filed a complaint against unidentified persons alleging that a morphed picture of her was posted on a website “with the intention of shaming and insulting Muslim women”.
The woman journalist filed a complaint online at the CR Park police station in South Delhi, a copy of which she also shared on her Twitter handle. The woman journalist, who works for an online news portal, demanded an immediate FIR and investigation against the group of unidentified persons who were trying to ‘harass and insult Muslim women’ on social media and the internet.
“I was shocked this morning to learn that there is an inappropriate, unacceptable picture of me on a website/portal which has been tampered with,” the complaint said. Immediate action is required in this regard as it aims to harass me and other independent women and journalists.
