Bengaluru: People go to police to give leads into crime cases or to lodge complaints hoping that secrecy will be maintained, but a recent development has left the Bengaluru police red-faced when they goofed up and posted phone numbers of thousands of citizens who called 100 and complained against harassment, quarrels, gambling etc. The details were put up on the police Twitter handle @BCPCR.
The police posted over 46,000 tweets online since April 2015 sharing information of people who called on 100 along with the app known as ‘Suraksha’ to lodge complaints. However, after this the police remained unapologetic about the same and said that the tweets were auto-generated from their Twitter handle.
Whether the police can be held responsible for the same or not, the fact is that the tweet has made the complainants vulnerable to attacks. The question now is, who is to be held responsible if in case even one of the individuals whose names have been made public faces trouble for his/her act of having been courageous enough to lodge complaint against ill-intended persons?
