According to the Maharashtra Cyber Department, the t-shirts, which diagnostic images and slogans idolising criminals, airs a superior hazard to nationalist bid and societal values. (Screengrabs)
The Maharashtra cyber constabulary Wednesday registered a First Information Report (FIR) against respective e-commerce platforms and sellers for selling t-shirts that glorify gangsters, including Lawrence Bishnoi and Dawood Ibrahim.
The Maharashtra Cyber Department filed the FIR nether sections 192 (provocation), 196 (promoting enmity), and 353 (public mischief) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), and those nether the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000.
The listings, which were recovered connected fashionable e-commerce sites specified arsenic Flipkart, AliExpress, TeeShopper, and Etsy, picture these gangsters arsenic taste icons, trivialising the superior crimes they are associated with, said an serviceman of the cyber police.
According to the Maharashtra Cyber Department, the t-shirts, which diagnostic images and slogans idolising criminals, airs a superior hazard to nationalist bid and societal values. “These products are not conscionable pieces of clothing, but vehicles for spreading messages that glamorise transgression and violence. By normalising figures similar Bishnoi and Ibrahim, these platforms are undermining societal values and perchance encouraging young radical to idolise individuals progressive successful amerciable activities,” said an serviceman of the Maharashtra Cyber Department.
As portion of the investigation, the Cyber Department is moving with the e-commerce platforms to guarantee that specified contented is promptly removed and that stricter controls are enforced connected aboriginal listings, said the officer.
While the probe is ongoing, authorities person stressed the value of integer platforms successful promoting ethical and ineligible standards, urging e-commerce companies to instrumentality stronger measures to forestall the merchantability of harmful oregon arguable merchandise.
The Maharashtra Cyber Department has besides warned that akin actions volition beryllium taken against different platforms recovered to beryllium hosting contented that glorifies transgression enactment oregon undermines societal well-being.
The section actively monitors integer platforms, including societal media and online marketplaces, to observe contented that could perchance incite instrumentality and bid issues.