Rana Ayyub is among a number of female journalists routinely trolled

The latest episode has been viewed as especially disturbing as it sprang from a "fake" tweet attributed to her

Who: Rana Ayyub, an independent journalist known for her investigative work on the 2002 Gujarat riots. She authored and published Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up, a book based on the accounts of cops, bureaucrats and politicians whom she interviewed during an eight-month-long sting operation in Gujarat while working with Tehelka.

What: Last week, Delhi Police registered a criminal case after Ayyub filed a complaint against unknown persons for posting fake tweets in her name and lewd videos of her by morphing images. It began with a fake “breaking news” tweet flashed by a Twitter handle of Republic TV.