The controversial Instagram chat post, ‘Bois Locker Room’, that created furore a few days back, has now brought forth a new development. The Delhi Police, in their investigations, have found a conversation on Snapchat in which a girl, who posed as a male, suggested a “sexual assault plan” to a boy on chat.
The Delhi Police’s investigation has revealed that the conversation discussing rape of a girl, actually, never happened on the private Instagram group called Bois Locker Room. Instead, it was a separate Snapchat conversation between two juveniles, a boy and a girl (who pretended to be a boy) and the two incidents got mixed up.
As per the Delhi Police, the girl assumed a fake identity, ‘Siddharth’, and suggested a plan of “sexual assault” on herself to the boy. The idea behind this was to gauge the boy’s reaction and to test the strength of his character, especially when someone talks bad things about the girl herself. The boy, however, declined to participate in any such plan suggested and stopped further communication.
“Investigation has revealed that the alleged conversation is actually between a girl (sender) and a boy (receiver) in which the girl is sending chat messages through a fictional account in a social media named ‘Siddharth’. Using the fake identity of a male person, she suggested in the chat, a plan to sexually assault herself,” said Anyesh Roy, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Cyber Cell.
The DCP said, “The receiver, also a juvenile, declined to participate in any such plan suggested by ‘Siddharth’ and stopped further communication with ‘him’. He, then, sent a screenshot of the messages and showed it to his friends, including the girl about whom the hypothetical conversation of sexual assault took place. However, the girl (who had created the account of ‘Siddharth’), did not report it to anyone. Meanwhile, one of the other recipients of the screenshot posted it as a separate story, from where it started circulating in connected social media accounts of friends, schoolmates, etc.”
“When the Bois Locker Room screenshots were revealed to others and started circulating on social media, the alleged previous conversation also got mixed with it due to its sensational nature and due to its availability in different student groups,” DCP Roy added while stating that efforts are on to identify and examine/interview the remaining members of the group at the earliest.
The series of messages gathered public eyes when during social media monitoring, it was noticed that a chat group had been created in which the participants were sharing obscene comments and pictures of girls/women. Acting immediately, the Cyber Crime Unit (CyPAD) registered a FIR under appropriate sections of law and started the investigation.
Based on the screenshots of the alleged chats between the group members in the public domain, one juvenile was identified and apprehended immediately after the registration of the case and the mobile phone used in the commission of the offence was seized. Details of other members of the said group were collected from their educational institutions as well as from friends and acquaintances. The group admin, was arrested from Noida, where he resides.
The devices of the two juveniles involved in the Snapchat conversation have been seized and sent for forensic analysis.
The officer said until now, the police have not found any conversation on the Bois Locker Room group suggesting sexual assault on any girl.
The group, however, does have chats where boys are talking about girls’ body parts and sharing morphed pictures.
Technical details are being collected and the devices seized during investigation have been sent for forensic analysis.
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