Actor-turned-politician Ramya filed a police grievance towards 43 social media accounts on Monday for allegedly issuing rape and demise threats to her after she highlighted a Supreme Courtroom order that pulled up the Karnataka Excessive Courtroom over its bail order for Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa in a homicide case.
Chatting with reporters after submitting the grievance with Seemanth Kumar Singh, Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru,
Ramya stated she had come beneath assault from Darshan’s followers. “As a celeb, I’m used to trolling. However I had by no means confronted trolling to such an extent. I felt that there was no distinction between (the messages despatched by) Renukaswamy and these trolls,” she stated, referring to the person who was murdered final 12 months after he allegedly despatched derogatory messages to Darshan’s pal Pavithra Gowda.
Darshan was arrested together with Pavithra Gowda and others within the homicide case.
Ramya stated the commissioner had knowledgeable her that he would ahead the grievance to the cyber crime cell.
Ramya, a former Sandalwood star, was elected MP from the Mandya constituency on a Congress ticket for a short interval following her win in a 2013 bypoll.
“I hope that this (grievance) sends a message to society. Many ladies have died by suicide as a result of such on-line harassment,” she stated, including that she had filed the grievance on behalf of girls.
Ramya was subjected to vicious on-line trolling following her put up on the Supreme Courtroom remarks in regards to the excessive court docket order. The apex court docket noticed that the excessive court docket was “panting for causes” to launch the murder-accused actor on bail.
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Additionally on Monday, the Karnataka State Fee for Ladies wrote to the Bengaluru police to behave towards the social media handles making misogynistic feedback about Ramya, other than issuing rape and demise threats to the actor-turned-politician. Movie Trade for Rights and Equality additionally put out an announcement looking for motion towards the “vulgar and misogynistic social media abuse concentrating on the actor and former MP”.