A Cyber Complaint by Resham Patil: Closer Look at the Incident and the Reactions

Budding influencer Resham Patil began posting content in March 2025 and now has just over 3,000 followers on Instagram. She’s a psychology student, something clear from her Instagram bio and a reel where she jokes, “Psychologist banne se pehle main hi patient ban jaungi.”After one abusive comment went too far, she saved screenshots, filed a cybercrime complaint and posted multiple reels about it. Read everything about what happened.

What actually happened, the abuse and the viral complaint

Resham’s content has been targeted repeatedly. The pattern goes back to June, when she first compiled and posted screenshots of sexually explicit and abusive comments she had received. That reel flagged months of slut-shaming, body-shaming and age-shaming and noted how trolls dragged her loved ones into the attacks. After a recent abusive comment crossed a line, she saved screenshots, collected evidence and uploaded a complaint reel that later went almost everywhere, almost touching 20 million views. 

About her content so far. 

Her feed mixes Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha energy: meme trends, transition reels, college and art-student jokes, lip-syncs and playful takes on regional identity. She balances humour with short and bold posts on body confidence. Examples include reels pushing back against body-shaming and promoting curvy-positive messages. Her style is experimental, fast, and tuned to what a young audience shares and laughs at.

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The follow-ups she posted, roast, call-outs and the “religious account” angle

After the complaint reel gained traction, Resham posted immediate follow-ups. One reel called out the commenter, noting a pattern where the most aggressive messages often seem to come from accounts that display religious symbols. She also split a longer rant/roast into two parts, asking directly what the abusive user would do now that she had recorded, complained and exposed the behaviour. The tone was defiant and sharp, not pleading. Those follow-ups amplified the discussion and pushed her situation into a wider view.

What has worked in her content? Quick Hits and Numbers

• A Marathi transformation reel (into a saree) that crossed 444K views.
• A family-meme trend reel with 221K views.
• A tongue-in-cheek “born in the right generation” reel with #staytoxic that got 16.2K views.

Other viral clips include relatable art-student humour and a popular lip-sync about exes.

Online Reaction, Split between Support and Scepticism

Reactions have been mixed. Many viewers supported her for not ignoring abuse and for doing the smart work of recording evidence and complaining. Others dismissed the case as “playing the victim”, a common online reflex that often appears when women call out harassment.

What action did she take?

Resham followed several recommended steps: she preserved screenshots, saved message headers and timestamps, reported the offending account on Instagram, blocked the user and filed a cybercrime complaint on the official portal with attachments. These actions turn social evidence into a record that authorities can act on and they create a timeline of the happenings.

What action can you take? Red Flags! 

• Repeated messages & persistent stalking escalate to the police.

• Threats of physical harm or doxxing (sharing/asking private info), immediate police complaint.
• Non-consensual sharing of explicit images or recordings, an urgent criminal complaint, may attract severe penalties under the IT Act / IPC.

Legal protections in India

Social media abuse can be acted on under multiple laws:

• Information Technology Act, 2000, covers publishing or transmitting sexually explicit material (Section 67A).
• IPC Section 354D — Cyberstalking.
• IPC Section 509 — Insulting the modesty of a woman.
• IPC Section 507 — Criminal intimidation by anonymous communication.
• Defamation (Sections 499 & 500 IPC) If false statements are propagated.

Resham’s case is not exceptional in scale, but it matters in kind. It shows that even aspiring influencers who are just starting with light, Gen-Z content can become targets of sexualised trolling and that documentation plus legal action are valid responses. Her move to file a complaint models a practical path for others who feel pressure to “shrug it off.”