Dps Rk Puram Mms Scandal 2004 -

In November 2004, a 17-year-old male student of Delhi Public School (DPS), R.K. Puram, used his smartphone to record a sexually explicit act with his 16- or 17-year-old female classmate on the school premises. The grainy, 2-minute-and-37-second video showed the girl topless, performing oral sex on the boy, seemingly without her knowledge. At the time, both students were in Class XI. The video was then shared using Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), the primary technology of the era for sharing video and audio content between mobile phones.

The scandalous clip was later listed for sale on the online auction platform Baazee.com, titled "DPS girls having fun," for a price of ₹125.

In late 2004, a male student (Grade 11) recorded an intimate encounter with a female classmate using a mobile phone camera. Dps Rk Puram Mms Scandal 2004

Note: this paper draws on contemporaneous Indian press coverage (2004–2005), public school statements, and scholarly analyses of media moral panic and cyberlaw in India. Specific citations should be collected from newspaper archives (e.g., national dailies and magazines) and legal-commentary sources for publication.

In an immediate, tangible response to the scandal, many schools and colleges across the country . The move, while popular with many parents, was also seen as an overreaction that ignored the root causes of the incident: a lack of adequate sex education and a failure to teach teenagers about consent and digital responsibility. In November 2004, a 17-year-old male student of

: An engineering student from IIT Kharagpur, Raviraj Singh, was also prosecuted for allegedly trying to sell the clip online but was later acquitted due to lack of evidence regarding actual sales. Impact on Indian Law and Society

The case against Baazee.com and its CEO Avnish Bajaj reached the Supreme Court. In August 2008, the Supreme Court stayed the criminal proceedings against them, which helped establish the principle of "safe harbor" protections for online intermediaries in India. At the time, both students were in Class XI

: The students involved, along with several others who helped circulate the clip, were suspended. The principal, Shyama Chona, initially faced intense media scrutiny for the school's "unruly" environment.

The male student, identified as , used his mobile phone to record his girlfriend performing an intimate act. The video was recorded clandestinely, seemingly without the female student's full awareness or informed consent.