When virtual gets real
Esha had lodged a police report a day before her suicide, stating she was incessantly cyberbullied and humiliated on TikTok and worried for her safety.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
The Star
18 hours ago
- The Star
Indian national admits to smuggling 2,578 turtles
SEPANG: An Indian national has pleaded guilty in the Sessions Court here to a charge of attempting to smuggle out 2,578 red-eared turtles at the KL International Airport Terminal 1. Sathaiyan Alagusundaram made the plea yesterday after the charge was read out to him in Tamil before judge Ahmad Fuad Othman, who then set Sept 19 for mention for sentencing. No bail was granted for the accused, who was unrepresented, Bernama reported. Deputy public prosecutor Mas Izzaty Lokman appeared for the prosecution. Sathaiyan was charged with attempting to smuggle 2,578 turtles, which are controlled species under the Fifth Schedule of the Wildlife Conservation Act 2010 (Act 716), at Gate G8, KLIA Terminal 1, here at 10.05pm on Aug 5. He was charged under Section 117(1) of the Wildlife Conservation Act 2010, read with Section 511 of the Penal Code. The accused faces a fine not exceeding RM30,000 or a maximum imprisonment of one year, or both, upon conviction.
The Star
18 hours ago
- The Star
Bogus doc nabbed during surgery
Compiled by GERARD GIMINO, BEH YUEN HUI and R. ARAVINTHAN A FAKE doctor in India who had assisted in caesarean sections on up to 50 women was arrested by police while in the middle of performing a surgery, Makkal Osai reported. The man, identified as Pulok Malakkar, has been running a healthcare centre in India's northeast state of Assam specialising as an obstetrics and gynaecologist. Authorities had apparently been tipped off that he was a bogus doctor and that his certificates were all fake. Police raided the facility and arrested the 'doctor' from an operating room. It was not clear what happened to the patient who was undergoing the procedure. The Assam government has started a special task force to weed out fake medical practitioners. Authorities say these fake doctors target mainly middle-class families in rural areas who can afford private care. (The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.)
The Star
18 hours ago
- The Star
When virtual gets real
A FEW months before the untimely demise of influencer Rajeswary Appahu (also known as Esha) by suicide in July last year, I had in this column written twice about the cyberbullying on TikTok's Tamil sphere. Esha had lodged a police report a day before her suicide, stating she was incessantly cyberbullied and humiliated on TikTok and worried for her safety.
