# Women who mocked Modi in viral protest videos describe online abuse and doxxing 2026-08-05T23:18:15+00:00 | Business & Economy | Indian Opinion Desk Women who joined or posted online about the Cockroach Janta Party protests told the BBC they have since faced doxxing, sexual threats, doctored images and abusive messages. The youth-led movement, whose Instagram videos helped force the resignation of India's education minister, saw police use tear gas and baton charges on 20 July to break up thousands of people trying to march on Parliament, Delhi Police reported 60 protesters and 118 police personnel injured that day, a figure the movement disputes as an undercount of protester injuries. The BBC interviewed four women, withholding their names to protect their identities, and reviewed screenshots of abusive messages and doctored posts the women shared with the broadcaster. Some of the women said they have since made their social media accounts private, deleted posts, or reported the abuse to police, and separate criminal cases have been opened against some protesters. ## Indian Opinion Analysis This account is corroborated only by the BBC's own reporting rather than a second outlet, though its reliance on first-person testimony and reviewed screenshots gives the harassment claims more grounding than a typical single-source account would carry. Police and the movement already disagree over the July 20 injury count, a dispute this account does not settle, and it likewise stops short of establishing how coordinated or widespread the online targeting was beyond the four cases the BBC describes. Any ruling that emerges from the opened criminal cases against protesters, or from a formal complaint over the doxxing, is the next thing to track. ## Coverage - bbc.com Tags: BBC, Delhi Police Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/i-was-slut-shamed-indian-women-cockroach-protesters-doxxed-and-abused-bbc/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/i-was-slut-shamed-indian-women-cockroach-protesters-doxxed-and-abused-bbc/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.