Farhan Akhtar, Swara Bhasker and others rally behind Richa Chadha after she receives rape and death threats

12 May 2018

Many celebrities are very outspoken on social media. One of them is actress Richa Chadha who recently called out trolls who constantly send her rape and death threats. Days after Richa condemning Hindutva and the supporters who constantly harass her on social media, Bollywood has come out in support of her. Farhan Akhtar , Swara Bhasker, Pooja Bhatt , Pulkit Samrat are some of the actors who have taken a job at Twitter management. Filmmaker-actor Farhan Akhtar took to his Twitter to hit back Twitter for its mismanagement. He said that said rape and death threats should not be allowed or go unpunished on the micro-blogging site. Top management at Twitter must re-group and decide what they would like their service to be remembered for. If it is for good, then they need to get smarter in its regulation. Rape and death threats cannot be allowed or go unpunished. Twitter, said Farhan wrote on late Thursday night. When Richa Chadha reported the account that was sending her threats, the social networking service responded saying, No violation within context. Besides Farhan Akhtar, Swara Bhasker, Pooja Bhatt and her Fukrey co-star Pulkit Samrat also came out to support her and slam Twitter for allowing this to continuously happen to women. Hey tweeps!Dont care about the targeted abuse because theres a lot of unemployment in the country rn,if someone needs to work for 10 per tweet,I dont judge them.But RAPE AND MURDER threats?Come on https://twitter.com/TwitterIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw @TwitterIndia https://twitter.com/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw @Twitter https://t.co/1AS8wlUPWg pic.twitter.com/1AS8wlUPWg TheRichaChadha (@RichaChadha) https://twitter.com/RichaChadha/status/994164277731708928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw May 9, 2018 You must report this. Twitter needs to take responsibility for this. They cannot provide a platform to people who openly threaten to rape and maim women. Pooja Bhatt (@PoojaB1972) https://twitter.com/PoojaB1972/status/994170331156959232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw May 9, 2018 Top management at Twitter must regroup and decide what theyd like their service to be remembered for. If its for good, then they need to get smarter in its regulation. Rape and death threats cannot be allowed or go unpunished. https://twitter.com/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw @twitter https://twitter.com/TwitterIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw @TwitterIndia Farhan Akhtar (@FarOutAkhtar) https://twitter.com/FarOutAkhtar/status/994613618279944194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw May 10, 2018 Scumbags! https://twitter.com/TwitterIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw @TwitterIndia should do something about such openly threatening tweets! Riches.. u define superwoman for me! ???????? https://twitter.com/RichaChadha?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw @RichaChadha https://t.co/J5Fy98AEvG https://t.co/J5Fy98AEvG Pulkit Samrat (@PulkitSamrat) https://twitter.com/PulkitSamrat/status/994208808347078656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw May 9, 2018 The kind of abuse and slander https://twitter.com/RichaChadha?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw @RichaChadha is facing on https://twitter.com/hashtag/Twitter?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw #Twitter amounts to harassment quite clearly.. https://twitter.com/TwitterIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw @TwitterIndia https://twitter.com/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw @Twitter u wanna take some action and block these accounts that clearly violate ur community standards! Shame on this filth and u stay strong Richa! https://t.co/DfTckAE4U2 pic.twitter.com/DfTckAE4U2 Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) https://twitter.com/ReallySwara/status/994180093713907712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw May 9, 2018 Also Read: Farhan Akhtar sings for Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu in Bharat Ane Nenu