India, Dec. 6 -- The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has ruled that posting objectionable content on a woman's social media account amounts to stalking and outraging her modesty, which are both serious offences.

The court was hearing a plea filed by a man seeking to have a police case against him quashed. The First Information Report (FIR) registered against him was under sections 354 (assault or criminal force on a woman with the intent to outrage her modesty) and 354D (stalking) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

According to the FIR, the man and the woman became friends on Facebook in 2017. The man eventually made romantic advances, which the woman rejected. The man then got annoyed and allegedly began posting objectionable materi...