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From cat-calling to gender discrimination to harassment to other crimes against women, we, as it is, have a lot to deal with. Rape is a serious criminal offence, but it is extremely sad to see how people have trivialised the term and made it into a callous word used loosely in conversations. Even more alarming are rape threats, which are very scarring.
Social media stalking and online harassment are daunting, but if it comes out of nowhere then it gets real scary and sickening. This guy, Agniswar Chakraborty, stalked a girl on Facebook and wrote a comment that has invited collective rage of the inter-web.
The words are so gut-churning and enraging.
These were the words of a man who had never had any interaction with the girl. He just chanced upon a photo of her, posted a smiley, which she deleted as he was a random person. And, the next thing he does is: digs up an old photo of her and penned down this atrocious comment.
We are gobsmacked and the words are stinging like hell.
A Kolkata activist, Pranaadhika Sinha Devburman, who runs a page called Shontu – United against Online Harassment, spoke to Storypick exclusively about the case and the details are gorier than one can imagine.
“The girl is studying and working in Australia, presently. There’s a picture on her page where she’s Skyping with her little brother. And, she’s saying, ‘I miss you. You’re my best friend’. Earlier when she had posted the picture, he had apparently posted a smile emoticon. She saw he’s not on her friend list, he’s nobody so she deleted the comment. After that, this happened. I believe it was probably that which caused such a sudden reaction.
The screenshot was brought to my attention yesterday and I was horrified. I feel very strongly because the boy has read this comment. The brother of the girl in the thread is a 14-YO old child. She’s in her early 20s.
A 14-year-old boy has just read a comment, he’s a schoolboy, does his own thing, innocent little fellow, he’s gone and read about how somebody wants to rape his sister while he’s being raped and to watch.”
The perpetrator had not sent her a friend request, nor had he left a message in the ‘Others’ folders or spoken with her ever. But had the audacity to write such an offensive comment.
“This guy out of the blue, without any prior conversation, provocation, interaction, suddenly comes out of nowhere and writes that terrible paragraph. But this particular action constitutes an offence under POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act because he’s threatened a 14-year-old boy. “
An FIR is being lodged. But there’s something about this guy that she has found out from about 15 people they spoke with,
She adds that the girl wants the man behind bars and wishes to receive justice. She adds,
“The correct steps have been taken and I am hoping we get some justice.”
We too hope the same.
Netizens have started reporting his Facebook profile and are left feeling disgusted by this man’s mentality, which is nauseating.
1. A friend of the activist brought the matter to light on Twitter and it has reached a lot of people.
I am shaking with rage. pic.twitter.com/C3K0J5ZClh
— Karishma (@The_Karishma) October 8, 2017
2. Sorabh Pant too was left flabbergasted with the comment.
https://twitter.com/hankypanty/status/917298603412082688
3. Singer Chinmayi Sripaada too was moved.
https://twitter.com/Chinmayi/status/917311718174351360
4. People didn’t want this guy on the loose and want to report him to the Police and Cybercell immediately.
Please file an FIR with the cyber crime division of police. Get him arrested for such threats. Just reporting him won't help.
— Mihir Bijur (@MihirBijur) October 9, 2017
5. José tagged Kolkata Police on the Twitter thread.
@KolkataPolice please look into this !
— José Covaco (@HoeZaay) October 8, 2017
These are words of a young man, who describes the act of rape in the goriest way and honestly, after reading the whole paragraph, it took me about 10 seconds to calm down. Such men and such mentality shouldn’t be tolerated and we need to take the strictest action against people with such perversive mindset.
It’s high time, we stopped harassment at the very onset and not dust things like these or any sort of threats under the rug. Because, if one is capable of thinking something this horrendous, he might just be capable of doing something even more monstrous.
Update: The guy has been arrested and admitted guilt.
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