Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday ordered an investigation by the State Crime Branch (CB) into the incident of obscene comments passed on pictures of some Rama Devi Women’s University students in social networking site Facebook.
Sources said students of Rama Devi and two other city colleges called on the CM at his chambers in the State Assembly here and demanded a CB probe into the incident. He immediately summoned the Crime Branch ADG Vijaya Sharma and gave him the necessary instructions.
Meanwhile, the CB has formed an eight member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the incident. The team comprises five Inspectors, including two women Inspectors and other staffs to assist in the investigations. The case was transferred from the Saheed Nagar police to the Cyber Cell.
Sources said basically the CB would inquire into, to whom the account belongs, who posted the photographs and passed the lewd comments.
Notably, the Ramadevi Women’s University students had held a demonstration demanding a CB investigation into the incident as they did not have faith on the local police to trace and nab the culprits.
One Sujit Sahu of Arohi Creations had taken the photographs from fifteen students of the university saying that it was meant for a competition. But later, it was found that the photographs were posted in Facebook with vulgar comments. These pictures went viral on the internet causing much humiliation to the victims.