After Twitter, now Insta to block RaGa's account? NCPCR writes to FB, asks to take action against RaGa

In a major setback to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi,  the Nation Commission for Protection of Child Rights has now written to Facebook after Twitter and asked the company to remove a video posted on Gandhi's profile, revealing the identity of a minor girl victim's family.

 

It further asked the Mark Zuckerberg-led company to take 'appropriate action' against Rahul Gandhi's profile for posting the photo of the family and for violating provisions of the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act and Juvenile Justice Care and Protection of Children Act.

 

 

 

In a letter to Facebook, the Commission said it has come across a video posted on the Instagram profile of Gandhi wherein the identity of the victim minor girl’s family has been disclosed. In this video the faces of the father and the mother of the deceased girl can be seen, which violates the prescribed provisions of law, it added.

 

 

 

Gandhi has shared an image of himself with the parents of a Dalit minor who was allegedly raped and killed in the national capital. The faces of the parents were visible in the photo. The girl died under mysterious circumstances when she went to get water from a cooler at a crematorium in the Old Nangal area in southwest Delhi.

 

A police complaint has also been lodged with Delhi Police against the Congress leader for disclosing Delhi’s Nangal rape victim’s identity and thus violating section 23 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 74 of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 228A of Indian Penal Code (IPC).

 

 

Earlier, the microblogging site Twitter blocked the account of RaGa after receiving a similar letter from NCPCR.