An FIR has been registered against unknown persons after a social media account was found to be sharing photographs of women commuters on Bengaluru's metro rail system without their consent.

The FIR comes after public outrage over an Instagram account that has been posting unsolicited images of women travelling on the Namma Metro. The page, operating under the handle 'Bangalore Metro Chicks', had amassed over 5,000 followers before coming under scrutiny. Following the outrage, and subsequent FIR, all pictures have been deleted from the Instagram handle.