Delhi girl death: NCPCR asks Twitter to take action on Rahul Gandhi for posting photo of victim's family

Child rights body NCPCR on Wednesday asked Twitter to take action against Congress leader Rahul Gandhis handle for sharing on the platform a photo of the family of a minor girl allegedly raped and killed in Delhi saying it violates the Juvenile Justice and POCSO ActsGandhi on Wednesday met the family of the nineyearold girl and asserted that he is with them on the path to justice and will not back down even an inchLater he posted a picture of his meeting with the girls parents on Twitter and wrote in Hindi Parents tears are saying only one thing their daughter the daughter of this country deserves justice And I am with them on this path to justiceThe National Commission for Protection of Child Rights sent a letter to the resident grievance officer of Twitter saying it received a complaint that a photo of the victims family has been posted on the Twitter handle Rahul Gandhi with the caption stating that they are the father and the mother of the childIn the said photo the faces of the victims father and mother can be seen which thereby reveals the identity of the girl the apex child rights body saidTherefore posting of the photo of the minor victims family on the said Twitter handle has been observed by the commission to be a violation of Section 74 of the Juvenile Justice Act 2015 Section 23 of the POCSO Act 2012 Section 228A of the IPC and the guidelines of the Honble court as well it saidAccordingly the complaint is being forwarded for appropriate action against the Twitter handle and removal of the tweet from the platform it saidThe NCPCR requested that an actiontaken report in the matter may be sent to the Commission within three daysThe move comes shortly after BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra accused Gandhi of violating the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences POCSO Act and another law dealing with juveniles by tweeting a picture of the girls parents as disclosing any aspect of a rape victims identity is an offencePatra urged the NCPCR to take cognisance of the matter and issue notice to the Congress leaderSection 74 of the Juvenile Justice Act 2015 prohibits disclosure of the identity of children while Section 23 of the POCSO Act 2012 lays out the procedure for media coverage of such cases and Section 228 of the IPC prohibits publishing the identity of sexual assault and rape victimThe girl died under mysterious circumstances when she went to get water from a cooler at a crematorium Old Nangal area in southwest Delhi The girls parents alleged that she was raped and her body was forcibly cremated by a crematorium priest who had falsely claimed that she was electrocutedHundreds of locals including the victims parents have been staging a protest near the site of the incident demanding capital punishment for the convictsPolice had on Monday said that based on the statement of the victims mother rape charges have been added in the FIR Four people including the priest have been arrested The Delhi Commission for Women DCW has launched an inquiry into the incidentThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever