On January 24, a magistrate court in Kunamangalam, Kerala, postponed its ruling on a bail plea filed by Shimjitha Musthafa, a resident of Kozhikode who has been arrested on charges of abetting suicide of a man.
Kerala police had arrested Musthafa after a series of incidents that began on January 16. On that day, Musthafa uploaded a video on social media of herself on a bus – also in the video was a man, U Deepak, who Musthafa claimed had touched her inappropriately. She told a Malayalam news channel that she had also noticed the man acting inappropriately with another woman and then decided to film him.
The video went viral, and quickly gained millions of views. On January 18, Deepak died by suicide – three days later, police arrested Mustafa on charges of abetment of suicide, after which she was remanded to 14 days’ judicial custody.
Opposing her plea for bail, police argued that if she was released, she might “commit similar offences and encourage others including women to engage in similar acts, potentially leading to more suicides”.
For now, Mustafa remains in judicial custody, awaiting the next hearing of her bail plea on January 27.
Meanwhile, the tide of social media commentary has turned almost entirely against her. Commentators and...
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