TRIVANDRUM: An 18-year-old Keralite law student has complained of cyber bullying, allegedly by right wing groups, over a poem on her Facebook page about taboos attached to menstruation.
The abusers alleged that the poem on a menstruating goddess hurt their religious sentiments, Navami Ramachandran from Mallappally in Pathanamthitta district said. The woman claimed she received threats on social media.
Navami told onmanorama.com that her 15-year-old sister Lekshmi was attacked by a group of bike-borne men wearing masks, who shoved her and assaulted her at Mallappally in Pathanamthitta district on February 21.
Navami was quoted as saying that their family had a strong Communist-Marxist background and that they will continue their struggles and protests.
An activist of the Students Federation of India, the teenager posted the poem to extend support to another youngster who had also faced a similar threat for speaking out on menstruation on social media.
"Taking into account other recent incidents, there is no doubt that the RSS was behind the act," Navami alleged.
Based on a complaint by her family about the alleged attack on Lekshmi, police registered a case and began a probe.