Gurmehar deletes FB account

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Cyber Cell unit, tasked with the investigation of the Gurmehar Kaur case, have to rely on telephonic conversations and emails to make headway in the case, as Kaur, after relentless trolling, has decided to delete her Facebook account after she decided to pull out from the protest against ABVP on Tuesday.

The Cyber Cell team, tasked with the investigation of the case have a total of 90 days to retrieve Kaur's Facebook data, failing which, the data will be lost. However, the police believe that after the controversy boils over and Kaur is left alone, she will be able to reactivate her account, rescinding the 90-day period.

"We have written to various social networking sites. It takes about 15-20 days for the sites to answer to our queries and it is a time consuming process. So far, the team has managed to identify the sites based on the complaint by Kaur," said a highly-placed source in the Cyber team.

Kaur had left Delhi and deactivated her Facebook account after incessant trolling and also when the threats became serious and she started to receive death and rape threats. However, the police are yet to identify the accused. Sources have claimed that Gurmehar has not yet given the important URLs that are required to pin point the accused issuing the rape and death threats.

Sources have claimed that they have gone through the comments in which the threats were issues but have claimed that they cannot take any action based on the comments alone. "We have come across two-three users who have abused Kaur. But legally speaking, we can't round them up and arrest them. We need the URLs which will be used to identify the accounts through which the threats have been issued. We had sent in a constable to her house but was turned away by her landlord as she had left Delhi," the source said.

However, the police have claimed that this will not hamper their investigation. However, the hurdles in the investigation and the time taken to get the proper approvals in cyber crime-related cases means that the victims of the crimes continue to suffer while the investigation takes its own sweet time.

In yet another attack on Gurmehar, a YouTube video showcasing a woman dancing to a popular, Nusret Fateh Ali Khan song inside a car with three other people went viral, with many users claiming that the girl was in fact Gurmehar. However, this has not been the case as she has not been identified as Kaur. Further, there have been Twitter feeds that attack Kaur by branding her as a ISI agent.