Three lawyers write to SC, seek judicial intervention

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, May 6

The controversy surrounding the ‘Bois Locker Room’ scandal reached the Supreme Court today with a letter petition by three lawyers seeking judicial intervention in the matter.

“This incident raises the issue of not only privacy, safety and well-being of women, but also of sensitisation and counselling of juveniles who are engaging in such conduct,” the letter petition by advocates Anand Varma, Kaustubh Prakash and Shubhangi Jain read.

The controversy relates to an Instagram group allegedly run by teenage boys from certain Delhi schools sharing objectionable pictures of women and minor girls. Terming the incident as “horrific”, the trio wanted the Supreme Court to take up the matter on the judicial side. “It involves harassment of women”, they said.

Maintaining that social media platforms had bridged the communication gap, the petition said such incidents proved that it had become a platform of public harassment of women and cyber bullying.

“It is appalling how boys as young as 15 years of age glorify rape, discuss techniques of raping and gang-raping women,” the petition read.