FIR filed after girl gets threats on social media

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The Delhi Police on Monday registered a First Information Report (FIR) on the compliant of a girl who had shared screenshots of chat from “Bois Locker Room”, after she received “offensive” and “obnoxious threat” messages on social media.

The Bois Locker Room, a Instagram group, was being used to share obscene messages and morphed pictures of underage girls on the social media sites.

The girl filed a complaint with the local police after she received obnoxious and offensive content for posting contents about the Bois Locker Room chats. The complaint was then transfered to the Cyber Cell of the Delhi Police.

According to a senior police official, police has registered an FIR based on the complaint police had received from the girl.

“As per the complaint, she received obnoxious and offensive content. The nature of content received was threatening but primarily obnoxious in nature,”” he said.

The police said they are in touch with the complainant and have sought information from her.

Information about the Instagram group came to light after a girl shared screenshots of its activities. Following this, the group started being called out on social media.

The police said during social media monitoring, it was noticed that the group was being used by the participants to share obscene messages and morphed pictures.

A case under relevant sections of IT Act and IPC was registered and during investigation, the 18-year-old admin of the Instagram group was arrested while a juvenile was apprehended in connection with the incident.

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