Police on Monday filed two cases against a couple of YouTubers for allegedly uploading a video clip of the Jubilee Hills gang rape survivor and thus revealing her identity in violation of Supreme Court guidelines.
The cybercrime wing registered the cases and commenced the investigation. Police found that the YouTube channels not only uploaded the video clip but organised a debate by inviting panelists and repeatedly played it.
Police have issued a notice to one of the YouTubers. The action comes two days after the video clip went viral on social media after it was released by BJP MLA M Raghunandan Rao at a news conference.
The clip purportedly shows the son of an MLA in an intimate act with the survivor in a car. Rao, however, denied that he revealed the name or identity of the survivor.
He said he wanted to make public the evidence about the alleged involvement of a Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) lawmaker’s son in the incident.
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