In late 2004, a grainy, low-quality video clip featuring two students from the prestigious Delhi Public School (DPS), RK Puram, began circulating via Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) [3, 4]. In an era before WhatsApp and high-speed 4G, the clip was shared manually from phone to phone via Bluetooth and infrared, eventually finding its way onto the fledgling e-commerce platform Baazee.com (now eBay India) [4, 5].

Two decades later, the DPS RK Puram scandal is remembered less for the video itself and more for how it shaped India's digital landscape. It forced the creation of better cyber laws and started a national conversation about privacy that continues in the age of deepfakes and social media. It remains a stark reminder of how technology can outpace the legal and social structures designed to manage it [4].

The realization that mobile phones were no longer just communication tools but recording devices that could be used for voyeurism [4].

The female student involved faced immense public scrutiny and "moral policing" long before the term "cyberbullying" was common [2].

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