India, Nov. 8 -- This advice is for her to suffer someone else's conduct. It also fails to address the question any investigator would ask: What does the behaviour tell the about access, intent and potential for escalation of the offender? During the investigations IIRIS undertakes for companies, institutions and individuals, the repeated contacts are never perceived as a series of unrelated events but read like a pattern. Women facing online abuse deserve the same seriousness.

The scale of the problem is no longer a second guess. The Committee on the Empowerment of Women of Parliament in March 2026 highlighted the data of the NCRB that the number of cybercrimes against women has increased by almost 239% in the last five years, from 2017...