Summary:
Considering the increasing rate of cyber crime cases against women, the cyber crime committee of Maharashtra State Commission for Women (MSCW) has come up with a set of solutions which shall help in spreading awareness about such crimes. The solutions also include making of short films and screening them across 700 theatres so that ways to avoid falling victim are known. Advocate and cyber expert Prashant Mali said, "Women are falling prey to various crimes in cyber space like online abuse, online defamation, sextortion, pornography, matrimonial and dating apps frauds. A senior police officer said awareness is the key to stopping the alarming increase in number of women falling prey. The most common forms of cyber crimes against women include trolling, abusing, threatening, stalking, voyeurism, body-shaming, defaming, revenge porn and other forms of indecent representation of women," said Dr Balsing Rajput, superintendent, Maharashtra cyber cell..