An 18-year-old law student from Kerala has filed a police complaint alleging cyber bullying by right-wing groups after she posted a poem on her Facebook page on taboos attached to menstruation.

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The abusers alleged that the poem on a menstruating goddess hurt their religious sentiments, Navami Ramachandran from Mallappally in Pathanamthitta district said.

The woman claimed she received threats on social media.

An activist of the Students Federation of India, the teenager posted the poem to extend support to another youngster who had also faced a similar threat for speaking out on menstruation on social media.

She alleged that even her school-going sister was not spared and was threatened by a group of unidentified people earlier this week.

A few bike-borne persons, with their faces obscured by masks, threatened her sister, she alleged in another post.

"Taking into account other recent incidents, there is no doubt that the RSS was behind the act," the student alleged.

Based on a complaint by her family about the alleged attack on Lekshmi, police registered a case and began a probe.

The bullying comes at a time when Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi launched a menstrual hygiene campaign on February 20.

The objective of the campaign is to create a holistic approach to issue of menstruation, which is an experience that transcends culture, class, and caste. The United Nations has recognised menstrual hygiene as a global public health and a human rights issue yet across the globe.

 'Period poverty', as some call it, is a reality for millions of women and girls.

The menstrual hygiene awareness #YesIBleed campaign is being launched almost a fortnight after the release of the popular Akshay Kumar-Radhika Apte-Sonam Kapoor starrer "Padman", which has attempted to ingrain the issue of menstrual hygiene in the psyche of the common man.