National celebrities and politicians provided Kaur with widespread support for raising her voice against eve-teasing and sexual harassment on social media.
[2][3][4] The Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal also tweeted in support of Kaur, calling it ‘an act of bravery’.
[14] The event brought a lot of media attention to misuse of laws by women,[15][11][16] including false rape accusation cases.
[17][18][19] On August 23, 2015, Kaur, a former student of Delhi University posted a picture of a man and alleged that he passed obscene comments at her during an argument on road.
After the post went viral, Singh was arrested a local police under sections 354A (Sexual harassment), 506 (Punishment for criminal intimidation) and 509 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the Indian Penal Code.
[21] Reactions in support of the Kaur, lauding her supposed bravery, and expressive of disgust and contempt for Singh came thick and fast, beginning the same day: The next day, on August 24, the then Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted lauding her supposed bravery asking all the girls of Delhi to speak up against such unacceptable acts.
[3] Actress Sonakshi Sinha also expressed support for Kaur, however later tweeted apologizing to Singh for the presumption of guilt.
Jasleen's family claimed that because of the online abuse she received in India, she had to move to Canada to pursue higher education.
[23][24] After being acquitted Sarvjeet Singh filed a petition seeking criminal enquiry against Jasleen Kaur and her parents for false accusations and helping her to flee, but Delhi High Court dismissed the petition and held that “loss of reputation is not sufficient” to initiate a criminal enquiry under Section 340 CrPC.