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Bois Locker room is a social media app, chat room scandal, allegedly involving a group of teenage boys from Delhi schools, created a storm on social media, when an Instagram user leaked chats from the group, including obscene images of around 15 girls[1]. The controversy flared after several social media users led by Instagram user Nisha Nagpal posted screenshots of the leaked obscene chats and morphed photos of young girls on Instagram and Twitter. [2]On Sunday, 6 May 2020 the hashtag #boyslockerroom was retweeted over 30,000 times. The DCW (Delhi Commission for Women) chief Swati Maliwal and the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights took notice of the issue and issued various notices to Instagram as well as delhi police for further information on the scandal.[1]

Members of the group, said to be Class 11 and 12 students from some of Delhi's top schools, illegally posted photos of teenage girls without their consent along with comments which were rude and derogatory. A number of conversations purportedly showed members talking about sexual assault often against their own classmates, raising questions about normalising of rape, misogyny and objectification in schools[3], However subsequent police investigations revealed that the alleged sexual assault conversations were completely unrelated to the incident and got mixed while the leaked chats were posted to social media application, Instagram. [4] According to social media accounts that posted the screenshots, members of "Bois Locker Room" even threatened to leak nude photographs of the women who reported them and launched a second group.[3]

Bois Locker Room 2.0

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On 4 March 2020, another account was created by the name of ‘Bois Locker Room 2.0’ but it was deleted later. Nagpal had earlier also leaked chats from another Instagram group, called ‘Jai ka shirt skrt gang’, that was found talking about ‘raping girls’.[1]

Investigation By Cyber Expert

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Bois Locker Room: Meet The Cyber Expert Working On The Case Cyber Expert Shubham singh who helped victims to find out member of bios locker room group and shared details with officials,The strange case of the Bois Locker Room scandal and the “ethical hacker” who believes “to get justice, you need to do unethical things According to BBC Shubham Singh, a cyber expert who works closely with law enforcement and was one of the first people to begin investigating the group, has cautioned that many of these screenshots look edited Shubham Singh, a cyber expert who cracked the Bois Locker Room case also various cyber crime cases, shubham has also trained mumbai police to combat with cyber crime Shubham has also received appreciation letter from [[Indian Police Service|IPS]] Pranay ashok and Many IPS For helping to solve cyber crime cases.

Investigation By Delhi police

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On 06 May, 2020 a student above 18 for starting "Bois Locker Room", was arrested. The class 12 teen studies in a Noida school. Fifteen other students along with their phones from prominent delhi schools were also questioned. The police have also identified 27, mostly underaged, members (majority boys) from the group.

On 11th May 2020 it was revealed that the alleged ‘sexual assault’ conversation on was on Snapchat and not Instagram (group) between two juveniles, one boy and one girl (posting as a boy, using fake profile). It was a result of a girl, wanting to test the ‘values and character’ of the boy using a fake profile. the Delhi Police revealed that ‘Bois Locker Room’ has nothing to do with this Snapchat conversation, the boy who was being tested by the girl for character and values essentially refused to participate in the alleged conversation and hence later released.[5]

It was also later revealed that, the boy then took a screenshot of the conversation and sent it to his friends, including the juvenile girl. One of the recipients of the screenshot posted it as an Instagram story from where it went viral. The alleged Snapchat conversation also got mixed, when screenshots from the group started circulating on Instagram and twitter. Both the girl and the boy was juvenile and hence no case was registered against either the boy or the girl.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Yadav, Jyoti (2020-05-04). "Delhi women's commission wants 'Bois Locker Room' probed, sends notice to Instagram, police". ThePrint. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  2. ^ "'Bois Locker Room': Horrific Details Of Delhi Teens' Chat Group Glorifying Rape Are Disturbing". www.mensxp.com. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  3. ^ a b "#BoysLockerRoom. A Delhi Students' Group Chat Is Every Parent's Nightmare". NDTV.com. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  4. ^ May 11, TNN | Updated; 2020; Ist, 14:54. "Bois Locker Room News: 'Sidharth' is actually a girl; fake account used to suggest plan for sexual assault | Delhi News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2020-05-11. {{cite web}}: |last2= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ a b Reporter, Staff (2020-05-10). "Investigation reveals 'sexual assault' chat not part of 'Bois Locker Room'". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2020-05-11.

Bois locker Room Scandal

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