Alia Bhatts mother Soni Razdan slams Instagram; calls for action against abuse

A day after Alia
Bhatt’s sister Shaheen Bhatt shared a series of screenshots where she was getting
rape threats and other hate messages targeting her and the Bollywood star, mother
Soni Razdan also vented
out her anger and slammed the photo-sharing app for the harassment. 

After Sushant
Singh Rajput’s untimely death, netizens are constantly crunching out hatred for
some Bollywood directors and star kids including Alia Bhatt. So much so that
many even had to limit their comment section on Instagram.

However, Soni
shared a screengrab of Shaheen’s original post and called out on Instagram
saying that as the app has zero-tolerance policy. She wrote, “@instagram I do
hope you’re reading this and taking some note of it. Because it really gets to
the root of the issue. So easy na to let the abusers off the hook. To let
yourself off the hook. To let the onus fall on the abused to take action to
protect themselves. It’s basically and fundamentally ALL WRONG.”

She
continued, “And it’s high time it was stopped at the source itself. And the
stinking abusers get their just desserts. Social media has for too long now
become the most antisocial media mainly because those running the platforms are
not doing enough to prevent abuse.”

On Monday, Shaheen offered stats and mentioned that
Instagram’s methods of tackling such behaviour were similar to victim-blaming.
Sharing screengrabs of the hateful messages she and her sister Alia Bhatt have received,
she wrote, “Asking me to change the way I use a platform because of someone
else’s hatred and misogyny is the equivalent of telling me that if I go out at
night and get assaulted ‘I was asking for it’.”