: The clip was eventually listed for sale on the auction website Baazee.com (now eBay India) for approximately $3 by an IIT Kharagpur student using the username "Alice-elec".
The prosecution attempted to hold Bajaj personally liable for the company's actions.
: Following public outrage, Delhi Police took aggressive action. Instead of focusing solely on the uploader, they arrested Avnish Bajaj , the US-citizen Managing Director of Baazee.com, under Section 67 of the IT Act (publishing obscene material) and Section 292 of the Indian Penal Code.
Avnish Bajaj, the then CEO of Baazee.com (which was later acquired by eBay), was summoned by the Delhi High Court. He was accused of allowing obscene content to be listed under Sections 67 and 85 of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000. Dps Rk Puram Mms Scandal 2004
, as the CEO of Baazee.com (Avnish Bajaj) was arrested for hosting the listing, though he was later discharged by the Delhi High Court. Mobile Bans
In late 2004, a 17-year-old male student from the elite in New Delhi, used a mobile phone to record a 2-minute 37-second video of an intimate encounter with a female classmate on school premises. At the time, smartphones and high-speed mobile data did not exist; multimedia was shared via Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS).
The video was subsequently circulated and sold, eventually appearing on the internet auction site Baazee.com (which was owned by eBay Inc.) for approximately 150 rupees (roughly $3 USD at the time), according to reports from the LA Times . : The clip was eventually listed for sale
In late 2004, a male student (Grade 11) recorded an intimate encounter with a female classmate using a mobile phone camera.
The 2004 DPS RK Puram MMS scandal was a watershed moment for India, marking the first time the nation confronted the darker side of emerging mobile technology. What began as a private encounter between two teenagers evolved into a national debate on digital ethics, corporate responsibility, and legal accountability. The Incident and Its Viral Spread
: At the time, the scandal was a "household name," exposing the vulnerability of minors in a new digital age before the era of modern social media apps. Instead of focusing solely on the uploader, they
The 2004 Delhi Public School (DPS) R.K. Puram Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) scandal was a landmark, highly sensationalized event in Indian history that exposed the collision between adolescent behavior, burgeoning technology, and strict traditional social norms.
Both the perpetrator (the boy who recorded the video) and the victim were minors.