Women’s doctored photos online: Woman in Uttarakhand, engineering student held in hate app case

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A woman, who is suspected to be the main accused behind the app which hosted doctored photographs and objectionable comments targeting Muslim women, was arrested in Uttarakhand on Tuesday. Police said the woman is “over 18 years old”. Confirming the arrest, Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar told The Indian Express: “As per our information the woman,…Continue Reading

Women’s doctored photos online: IT minister orders probe, FIR registered

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Minister for Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw. (Express photo by Abhinav Saha/File) The government has asked its cyber security and law enforcement agencies to investigate complaints that a website had hosted doctored pictures and objectionable comments “aimed at insulting Muslim women”. The Indian Computer Emergency Response System (Cert-In), the national nodal agency for monitoring cyber…Continue Reading