The Delhi Commission for Women has issued a notice to the Delhi Police over the online abuse and trolling of Indian cricketer Shubman Gill‘s sister Shahneel. DCW has sought the registration of an FIR in opposition to the trollers and individuals who abused Gill’s sister.
“These posts on social media platform ‘Twitter’ and ‘Instagram’ are obscene, misogynistic, threatening, and extremely abusive towards the sister of Shubman Gill. She is also being threatened of rape and assault on social media which is an outrightly criminal act,” the DCW notice stated.
The DCW chief Swati Maliwal shared the notice on her social media platform Twitter. “Taking suo-moto cognisance of the online trolling and abuse of cricketer #ShubmanGill’s sister, we have issued a notice to Delhi Police seeking registration of FIR. Police is to file a detailed action taken report by 26th May. Such criminals won’t be allowed to get away with this,” she wrote in a tweet.
Shubman Gill helped Gujarat Titans beat Royal Challengers Bangalore and knock them out of IPL 2023. This drew anger and abusive reactions from the followers. Shubman Gill smashed 104* off simply 52 balls and helped GT gun down the 198-run goal set by RCB in Bengaluru. Gill was named as participant of the match for his scintillating knock.
After the sport, the GT opener posted an image of him from the match and captioned it as “It begins now”. The publish attracted applause from many fellow cricketers together with Suryakumar Yadav, Rashid Khan, and Krunal Pandya. But a couple of followers additionally despatched derogatory feedback to the publish. Gill’s sister additionally commented on the publish and wrote “My babyyy”. But the followers obtained offended over her response and began writing derogatory and abusive feedback.
After the incident, Maliwal gave a response on Twitter and wrote, “Extremely shameful to see trollers abusing #ShubhmanGill’s sister just because the team they follow lost a match. Previously we had initiated action against people abusing #ViratKohli’s daughter. DCW will take action against all those who have abused Gill’s sister as well. This shall not be tolerated!”
