The brutal rape and murder of an 8-year-old nomad girl from Kathua sent shockwaves across the entire nation. The case has been drawing reactions from different spheres, with people enraging on social media against Hindu Ekta Manch for taking out a rally in support of the rape accused as well as holding #NotInMyName protests in different cities across India to protest against the rape cases in Kathua and Unnao.
Fault lines appeared when Kathua lawyers also held separate protests. The Jammu & Kashmir Police then filed FIR against the lawyers for obstructing the Crime Branch from filing the chargesheet. But what’s worse is that the name of the victim is now a top trend on XVideos — one of the largest porn sites in the world. The search term was trending in India which supposedly means that Indians were searching for porn videos using the victim’s name.
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Here is how a few Reddit users reacted to this bizarre and despicable development:
One user believes that the victim’s name was trending because additional tags were added to the existing videos to boost viewership.
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In the latest development, the Supreme Court has issued directions for the authorities to provide protection to the victim’s family and to their counsel — Deepika S Rajawat. Rajawat had earlier said that she feared that she may be “raped or killed”. She had alleged that she was threatened by the Jammu Bar Association from appearing in the case.
