New Delhi: Mumbai police have arrested three persons from Haryana in connection with the chat on the Clubhouse app, in which 'obscene comments' were made against Muslim women. The three accused — Akash, Jeshnav, and Yash Parashar were arrested by the personnel of the cyber cell of the Mumbai Police crime branch late on Thursday, an official said.
“The cyber cell has registered a case against the three accused under sections 153(a), 295(a), 354(a), 354(d) of IPC, and section 67 of Information Technology Act 2000 based on a complaint by a woman,” said the Mumbai Police.
Joint CP Crime Milind Bharambe said that two chatrooms were created were derogatory statements were made about women. "2 chat rooms were created in the Clubhouse app, one on 16th January and the other on 19th January. There were many participants in the chat room involved in giving derogatory statements about women and talking about auctioning female body parts," Bharambe said.
The official added that two of the accused will be produced in a local court later in the day.
Shiv Sena's Rajya Sabha member Priyanka Chaturvedi, tweeted early this morning praising the city police for the arrests in the case.
"Kudos @MumbaiPolice, they have got cracking on the Clubhouse chats too and some arrests have been made. Say no to hate. #Clubhouse," Priyanka tweeted.
The Delhi Police on Wednesday had written to the Clubhouse app and search engine Google and sought details about the organiser of the audio chat group where “obscene comments were made against Muslim women.” The police identified some other participants of the group audio chat including men and women from both communities as part of the investigation, quoted PTI as the official sources said.
A complaint was lodged by a Mumbai-based organisation in connection with the Clubhouse app with the city police on Wednesday. The complaint sought deactivation of the app and registering of a case.
A Mumbai-based organisation had lodged a complaint with the city police on Wednesday in connection with the Clubhouse app, seeking its deactivation, and also registration of a case, the official said.