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UP Police books Twitter, websites for disclosing Hathras victim's identity

The police are now taking steps to get photos, video, and identity of the deceased removed from these named websites

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The victim, hailing from the Dalit community, was allegedly raped and physically assaulted by four men on September 14.

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
The Uttar Pradesh Police has registered a first information report (FIR) against micro-blogging site Twitter and some other internet portals for allegedly disclosing the identity of the Hathras rape and murder victim.

The FIR no 156/2020 was filed on the complaint of Lucknow-based social activist Dr Nutan Thakur pertaining to the alleged rape and murder case.

The police are now taking steps to get photos, video, and identity of the deceased removed from these named websites.

Nutan had submitted her complaint to the police on September 29, 2020 seeking legal action over the “disclosure of the name of rape victim

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