DLSA Budgam orders removal of minor victim’s photos from social media platforms

Srinagar, May 26: The District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) Budgam has directed all social media platforms and the general public to immediately stop sharing or circulating photographs of the minor victim of the recent Galwanpora Budgam murder case.

An advisory issued by DLSA Budgam reads: “It has been observed that on various social media platforms the picture of the victim from Gulwanpora Budgam has been uploaded who was murdered brutally. Moreover, the pictures of the victim are being circulated by a number of persons, thereby violating the provisions of Juvenile Justice Act and right to privacy of the victim and her family. Such actions are against law, wherein the identity of the victim is revealed and punishable under law.

As such, the social media platforms and general public is informed through the medium of this order to stop revealing the identity of victim and also circulating her pictures, failing which, the violators shall be booked under law.

Hence, all the social media platforms are directed to remove the pictures of the victim immediately from all social media platforms”.

The SSP Budgam has been directed to lodge FIR against the persons who in spite of the recent order continue to upload/circulate the photographs of the victim.