Mumbai:
Taruna Aswani, a Mumbai Girl was recently threatened by an Online Stalker. She currently living in Hyattsville, Maryland. The man threatens her to leak her private pictures and videos online, which she had reportedly sent to her boyfriend. He also mentions he won’t do it unless she sent him her nudes.
The Man sent an email to the Mumbai Girl Taruna mentioning, “I have nude pictures and videos that belongs to you. That nobody else knows it exists beside the person you sent to and it looks good like I thought”. He adds, “I have access to your all your friends/social media and family and co-workers… Contacts that u have & I think some will be happy and some embarrassed to see it”.
Sexist Indian Society
Our Sexist Indian Society targets the women who are assumed to be a weaker race or a soft target, where women are considered to dress properly & behave properly. This has lead to an increase in Cyber Bullying & Crime Against Women. This incident shows us what as a society we have reached to. We need to break this stereotypical mentality associated with women. Generally any other women or girl would fall into the trap of such an incident. Girls easily get blackmailed into further fulfillment of the cyber bully’s dirty fetish. But Taruna not only stood up against it on social media. She even inspired other women by setting up an example of sheer bravery.
“As embarrassing as the videos may be. (they were sent to my boyfriend at the time) I choose to stand up to this man”, she wrote in a Public Facebook post.
In the post, she also provides the email screenshots sent by the man, in which he claims he is thousands of miles away from her Maryland address. Instead of hiding, she has asked the world to “share this post with as many people as you know to get the word out” so that someone, somewhere might be able to locate the “sick pervert.”
As per India Today, Mumbai Police has responded, and asked for a formal complaint. We at Funjabi Kudi, salute Taruna’s bravery and would like to make an appeal to all the young women and girls to stand up against cyber bullying just like the way Taruna did so we can clean our society from such sick mentality and help police catch such perverts so they do not trouble other girls.
Featured Image Credits: Taruna Aswani’s Facebook Profile
