Getting Doxxed or Trolled for Speaking Up? Here's What to Do
This is a real, actionable cybercrime — not something you have to just absorb quietly.
Having your personal details (address, phone number, family info) exposed and weaponised online — doxxing — along with coordinated harassment, is covered under India's cybercrime framework.
File a complaint at the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (cybercrime.gov.in) or call 1930, the national cybercrime helpline. Screenshot everything before it can be deleted — timestamps, usernames, URLs.
If the harassment includes threats of violence or sexual harassment specifically, that's an even more urgent category — go to the police cyber cell directly in addition to the portal, and don't wait to see if it stops on its own.
Provide a direct legal basis for action against doxxing and online harassment
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