SHILLONG: Trolling women on social media like Facebook and WhatsApp has become common in the state and one more case of cyber bullying has come to light recently.
A woman has lodged a complaint that on September 1, she detected one Facebook account where a group called Na Lyngwiar Dpei u Hynniewtrep posted a photograph of her daughter accompanied by hateful and racial comments with intention to tarnish her image. The post shows the photograph of the girl with a boy. This is not the first time in the state when a young girl has been bullied by such groups on Facebook as earlier too many cases of harassment on social media were reported.
Earlier, this year, a case was reported when miscreants uploaded photographs of a woman with her husband along with an explicit sex video which went viral. The miscreants tried to insinuate that the woman was the female seen in the video.Earlier, even many woman activists in Shillong had to face cyber-bullying, but Police is yet to effectively take strict action against such groups. There are also demands that police should implement the existing criminal laws to strictly deal with cases of harassment of women and girls over social media such as Facebook and WhatsApp.