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anybody, he would eliminate her and also make her intimate
scenes viral on the social media. He further submits that the
investigation of the case has not yet been completed. The
entire allegation in the FIR as well as the statement recorded
under Section 161 of Cr.P.C read with other materials
available on records are a pointer to the fact that the crime
committed by the petitioner are serious in nature. The victim
has been at the receiving end of an unabated mental torture
due to the blackmailing tactics used by the petitioner.
5. While examining the pages of the case records, prima facie,
it
appears
that
the
petitioner
has
uploaded
the
said
photos/videos on a social media platform i.e. Facebook and
with the intervention of the police, after some days, he deleted
the said objectionable contents from the Facebook. In fact, the
information in the public domain is like toothpaste, once it is
out of the tube one can’t get it back in and once the
information is in the public domain it will never go away.
Under the Indian Criminal Justice system a strong penal
action is prescribed against the accused for such heinous
crime but there is no mechanism available with respect to the
right of the victim to get the objectionable photographs deleted