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| Circulating obscene video on social media: Court rejects bail of accused | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 6: A court has rejected the bail plea of an accused arrested in connection with circulating a obscene video of a girl on social media.
Munsiff Reasi Aarti Devi rejected the bail application of the accused Manjeet Singh. According to the police case that P/S Reasi registered FIR on the written complaint of complainant alleging therein that accused prepared false and fake nude video of complainant whose screen-shot was shared by some unknown person from unknown number on whatsapp number and on enquiry that person disclosed his name as Manjeet Singh but complainant denied that the video as same does not belong to her and then blocked the number of the accused.
Then after a few days, the accused contacted her again from another whatsapp number and asked her that video belonged to her. Complainant tried her best to convince accused that video doesn't belong to her and also asked him to stop torturing her and then ignored the number.
After a few days, the complainant came to know that her fake nude video was circulating on social media and the complainant came to know that the accused had done all this to defame her.
Munsiff Reasi, Aarti Devi after hearing both the sides observed that the prima facie accusation of offences alleged against accused person u s 354-D IPC. 66-E, 67-A. 67 IT is under investigation and same is at initial stage. Accused is in police custody since 31-08-2022. During the investigation, statements of some of the witnesses including the complainant are also recorded. Without commenting much on the merits of case and giving any finding on the truthiness or falsity of allegation will amount to pre trial findings which is not permissible under law but the allegations as already said above are prima facie established which pertains not only to complainant but same has its wide impact on the society as a whole. Especially, where technology is used as a tool of committing alleged crime and then in modern digital world same gets spread in public within no time and damage to a victim has already been done even before he or she got the knowledge of same as happened in present case who is a college going girl and her college friends informed her about the video. This court can well understand the impact of the same on the mind of the girl and her family who must be feeling helpless and granting bail to the accused at such an initial stage will not only send the wrong message to society but also shake the confidence of the general public in the criminal justice system. And finally, the investigation has just started which requires so much documentary evidence to be evaluated and scrutinized that too with the help of forensic expertise and the same consumes sometime and if the accused is released now then there is every likelihood of delay in investigation. And last but not the least, this court thinks that such types of offences are more serious than even rape as here prestige of girl will get degraded in whole world and she will be made answerable to the whole society for the acts which was not even committed by her or we can also say that she has to prove her innocence for lifetime. With these observations, the Court rejected the bail application. —JNF |
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