Sapna Bhavnani’s spirited fight against online abuse

After Sona Mohapatra, it is now the turn of ex ‘Bigg Boss’ contestant and celebrity hairstylist Sapna Bhavnani to get trolled along with an obscene, photoshopped image of Shah Rukh Khan. And doing the mischief has been a twitter user, who goes by the handle @SRKMyCondom. According to reports, Sapna retweeted the offensive image to her 37.7k followers and followed it up with a barrage of tweets with the hashtag, #IamTrolledHelp.
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Sapna, who tagged the Mumbai police and Maneka Gandhi, union minister for women and child development, in her tweet complained to Twitter with regard to violent threats and abusive behaviour.The microblogging site, however, didn't find it in violation of any “rules”. According to Sapna, she wanted this account to be suspended. When Sapna started tagging Maneka and the Mumbai Police, the twitter user also started tagging them. The hairstylist feels that ever since she reacted to Salman Khan’s rape comment, she is being trolled every day.
The troll’s account was finally suspended on July 13 and Sapna posted a jubilant tweet, “Small victory! These accounts cannot just be blocked. They hv to 2 reported. No one has the right 2 speak like that (sic)”.

Meanwhile, Sona Mohapatra got into the act of retweeting Sapna's posts. She says, "There is a clear line between freedom of expression and targeted obscene harassment and it is critical that community guidelines be followed in the virtual world, just like the real world. I feel bad that Sapna got dragged into this since I had posted a pic of us in the gym and the Salman controversy was still raging."