The Crime Branch of the Delhi Police had detained the accused a fortnight ago, but neither the accused were arrested nor the owner of the website, Youtube, booked for promoting obscenity
Even after the identification and interrogation of the accused 15 days ago, the investigators have failed to make any headway in the infamous Crazy Sumit case, wherein a video uploaded on the social media showed a youth forcibly kissing women in Connaught Place in the name of a prank.
The Crime Branch of the Delhi Police had detained the accused a fortnight ago, but neither the accused were arrested nor the owner of the website, Youtube, booked for promoting obscenity.
The police had registered a molestation case against the two men — Sumit Kumar Singh, 20, and Satyajeet Kadian, 25, students of Bachelor of Computer Application in a private Gurugram college.
In a press conference held 15 days ago, the police said the two were to be arrested after the statements of the girls featured in the video were recorded. When questioned, the girls stated that they were aware of the "prank", but did not know that the video would be uploaded on the internet. Following that, the police have been confused about how to proceed in the case as there seems to be no "victim".
The police's plan to make the social networking site an accused for promoting obscene activities in the city also fell apart after a few days. The cops had recovered a laptop, a video camera, wireless microphones, and an award trophy given by YouTube to 'The Crazy Sumit', for getting more than 100,000 subscribers.
At the time, Joint Commissioner of Police Ravindra Yadav had blamed Google and YouTube for encouraging obscene activities. He had said that the role of Google, its video-sharing site, and an event management company, were to be examined to assess their criminal liability in the making of the video.
Yadav had further said: "YouTube paid Rs 700 to the boys for every 1,000 hits on the video. The trend is to shoot obscene videos to get more hits, and thereby, more money. YouTube and Google are also giving incentives such as recognition and certificates in parties organised by them.
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