Clubhouse chat case | Mumbai Police arrest three from Haryana
The Hindu
Cases registered for passing derogatory comments against women.
The cyber crime branch of Mumbai Police on January 21 arrested three youngsters from Haryana for allegedly participating in discussions on mobile phone audio chat application ‘Clubhouse’ where they passed derogatory comments against women and also reportedly talked about auctioning their body parts.
Three youngsters, identified as Akash Suyal (19), Jaishnav Kakkad (21) and Yashkumar alias Yash Parashar (22) were arrested by Mumbai Police. Out of these, Mr. Suyal was picked up from Karnal in Haryana and has already been sent to three days in police custody. The other two were arrested from Faridabad in Haryana and the process of transit remand was in process at the time of writing this report.
Mr. Suyal, who went by the ID as ‘KIRA XD’ was allegedly the moderator of the chatroom at ‘Clubhouse’. According to the police, these three were part of two chatrooms where participants made derogatory comments against women and also about auctioning their body parts. Two videos of the objectionable chat went viral on January 16 to 19. After the videos went viral, two women came forward registering complaint about objectionable comments being made against them in earlier chats dated October 27, 2021 and November 27, 2021.
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