An Instagram chat group called ‘Bois Locker Room’, with hundreds of boys from south Delhi, was allegedly used for sharing photos of underage girls, objectifying them, and promoting rape culture, revealed a user on Twitter on Sunday, 3 May.
A day later on Monday, a Delhi schoolboy was taken into custody by the police. “We have apprehended one minor boy last night in this case,” a Delhi Police source told The Quint. The Delhi Police (Crime Branch Cell) had taken cognisance of the matter and have filed a case under the Information Technology Act on the basis of social media posts.
The boys allegedly shared morphed photos of underage girls, body shaming and slut shaming them on the group chat.
In a separate incident, another screenshot that has gone viral claimed that underage boys were ‘planning gang rape’ and had made other such crude statements. Messages promoting rape culture, like “We can rape her easily” and “I will come whenever you say. We will gang rape her”, were allegedly discussed on the Snapchat group. The Quint is unable to independently verify this claim.
A screenshot of the ‘Bois Locker Room’ chat group was shared by a south Delhi girl on Twitter. “A group of south delhi guys aged 17-18 types have this ig gc named ‘boy's locker room’ where they shit on, objectify and morph pictures of girls their age. 2 boys from my school are a part of it. MY FRIENDS AND I ARE FREAKING OUT THIS IS SO EWWW AND NOW MY MOM WANTS ME TO QUIT IG (sic),” she wrote.