New Delhi: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has summoned an official of Facebook India next week along with details of the action taken against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for posting a video on his Instagram account revealing the identity of the family of the nine-year-old girl allegedly raped and murdered in southwest Delhi.
NCPCR has said Facebook India’s trust and safety head, Satya Yadav, must appear before it at 5 pm on August 17 virtually.
The child rights body had asked Facebook to take action against Rahul Gandhi for posting the video of the girl’s family, saying it violated the provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015, the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, 2012, and the Indian Penal Code (IPC). It also demanded the removal of the video from the platform.
The opposition party has criticised the government for “scuttling free speech”. Its head of social media department, Rohan Gupta, accused Twitter of working under government pressure. “They need to understand we can’t be pressurised by Twitter or the government.”
