Delhi women's panel summons Twitter India policy head, police in 'child pornography' case

DCW Chairperson Swati Maliwal has summoned Twitter India Policy Head, Delhi Police in 'child pornography' case.

The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal has summoned Twitter India Policy Head and Delhi Police over tweets depicting child pornography and rape videos of women and children over the social media platform.

The commission took suo moto cognizance of several tweets on Twitter openly depicting videos and photographs of sexual acts involving children. The commission stated that most of the tweets portrayed children completely naked and many of them also depicted brutal rape and other non-consensual sexual activities with children and women.

"Shockingly, some of these videos even depicted rape with children and women while they were asleep! Some of the Twitter accounts engaging in these criminal acts appear to be running a racket wherein they seek money for providing pornographic and rape videos of children from other users of the social media platform," said Swati Maliwal in a press conference on Tuesday.

The commission has shared a list of such tweets with the Delhi Police and Twitter.

In the summons issued to Twitter, the commission has stated that it is “Deeply distressing that such illegal acts involving sexual abuse of children and young women are being publicized through the social media platform.”

The commission has summoned Twitter officials in order to ascertain the steps being taken by them to prevent such filthy and outright criminal acts being propagated through their medium as well as the systems in place in the platform to immediately report the same to law enforcement agencies.