If you have kept up with the latest news, it is likely that you are aware of the Bois Locker Room case and how things escalated from there. For those who aren’t aware, the case included a group of juvenile and teen adult boys joking around and passing crude comments about minor girls, even to a point of threatening to “gang rape” these girls.
In a new development in the case, the Cyber Crime unit of Delhi Police informed that the alleged “sexual assault” conversation that was conducted on Snapchat, whose screenshot was shared on the viral social media posts, was made by a minor girl with a fictitious character of Siddharth to another minor boy.
According to the reports shared by the police, the name “Siddharth” was used by the girl who then created a fake profile on the social networking app and the conversation conducted between the sender and recipient was meant to test the values and character of the boy.
The investigation has further revealed that the Snapchat screenshot conversation that you can see is actually between a girl and a boy in which the girl is sending the messages through a fictitious Snapchat account under the name of Siddharth.
Using this fake identity, she instigated the conversations of sexual assault “her own self”. The girl alleged that the reason or purpose behind sending such chat messages using the fake and fictional identity was to further check the reaction of the receiver and whether or not they participated in perpetuating the conversation even further. The clarifications were made via the police report.
Posing as “Siddharth”, the girl suggested to plan a sexual assault on herself to which the receiver of the message declined to be a part of. The receiver then took a screenshot of the chat and reported it to his friends that included the girl that was pretending to be “Siddharth.”
Since the fake account was created with the purpose to test the integrity of the boys, she didn’t report the case to anyone.
But, the problems arose when another recipient of the Snapchat screenshot uploaded it to Instagram and since then, it has been circulating with the rest of the screenshots posted under the Bois Locker Room case.
The cyber cell of the Delhi police has reported that there was no such planning of the sexual assault and the fact that everything was planned and perpetuated by the girl herself using a fake account. The report further suggested that neither of them related to the Bois Locker Room account on Instagram, either through real or even the fake usernames.
The investigations for the case are being conducted consistently to further identify and interview the remaining members of the account/group. One accused behind the account has been arrested so far.
Further developments of the case are going to be reported as the things escalate accordingly.
- Somapika Dutta
