Yesterday
(July
13,
2020),
Alia
Bhatt's
sister,
Shaheen
Bhatt
exposed
some
of
the
online
harassers
on
her
Instagram
page
and
shared
a
screenshot
of
rape
and
death
threats
that
she
received
online.
Shaheen
is
keen
to
take
legal
action
against
the
perpetrators
to
teach
them
a
lesson.
Her
sister,
Pooja
Bhatt
also
came
out
in
support
of
her
and
spoke
against
online
bullying.
She
tweeted,
"Criticism
is
one
thing.
Abuse
quite
another.
Ignoring
abuse
seems
to
fuel
those
unleashing
it
to
target
more
people.
This
has
to
stop.
One
can
and
should
agree
to
disagree
but
having
access
to
someone
on
social
media
doesn't
give
anyone
the
right
to
make
threats
&
hurl
abuse."
She
further
wrote,
"Not
enough
to
merely
ignore
or
mute
any
&
all
aggressive,abusive
behaviour
one
observes.
Report,block
abusive
behaviour
towards
one
&
all.We
choose
who
we
let
into
our
homes
so
why
permit
our
social
media
accounts
to
be
inundated
by
motivated/misguided/inherently
miserable
souls?"
"Social
media
or
anti-social
media?
Motivated,
misguided
or
inherently
miserable
people
target
those
they
wouldn't
normally
have
access
to
&
those
who
dare
go
against
popular
opinion,
unleashing
abuse
&
threats.
Ignoring
them
fuels
their
frustration
&
makes
them
direct
hate
elsewhere,"
concluded
the
Dil
Hai
Ke
Manta
Nahin
actress.
Apart
from
Pooja
Bhatt,
many
netizens
also
urged
Shaheen
to
expose
the
online
abusers/trollers
as
social
media
platform
has
become
a
toxic
place
for
women.
For
the
unversed,
all
the
hatred
for
Bhatt
sisters
began
when
their
father
Mahesh
Bhatt's
name
got
dragged
into
a
controversy
around
Sushant
Singh
Rajput's
death
owing
to
his
proximity
to
Rhea
Chakraborty.
For
the
unversed,
Sushant
died
by
suicide
on
June
14.