Archive · 25 Oct 2025
Cyber Harassment of Women on the Rise in India
Many women in India are facing a lot of trouble online.
People are sharing private pictures, making threats, and even changing pictures to make it look like something else.
This kind of bullying is happening more and more, especially to young women and girls.
It's happening on places like Instagram and Telegram.
Some examples are groups that share private photos or put women's pictures up for fake sales.
There are serious problems with this issue as the number of cyber bullying incidents has almost doubled in the past 5 years.
This includes situations like the use of fake pictures to hurt or blackmail others.
People are often too scared to report it.
Stopping this needs everyone to work together, especially the social media platforms themselves, schools, and the police.
Cyber harassment of women in India is increasing across various social media platforms.
Incidents of cyberstalking and cyberbullying targeting women nearly doubled from 2019 to 2023.
Cyber harassment includes sharing of private images, cyberbullying, threats, and image manipulation.
Multiple cases highlight the issue, including Bois Locker Room and Sulli Deals.
Addressing the issue requires collaboration between platforms, law enforcement, and civil society.
- Who
- Women, including teenagers and young adults, targeted by cyber harassers
- What
- Cyber harassment, including image morphing, cyberstalking, and blackmail
- When
- Between 2019 and 2023, and ongoing
- Where
- India, across various social media platforms
- Why
- To humiliate, extort, and harass women, often through shared content
- Focus
- Cyber stalking, bullying, image morphing, cyber blackmailing
- Affected Group
- Women, particularly teenagers and young adults
- Platforms Involved
- Instagram, Clubhouse, WhatsApp, Telegram
- Notable Cases
- Bois Locker Room, Sulli Deals, Bulli Bai
- Actions
- Sharing private images, threats, deepfakes, extortion
- Challenges
- Social stigma discourages reporting