An online shopping platform Flipkart had to cope with the anger of Twitterati in India due to a T-shirt it was selling. This normal-looking T-shirt has a picture of late Indian film actor Sushant Singh Rajput who died in mysterious circumstances two years back.
However, the caption ‘Depression is like Drowing’ was the reason for netizens to react so sharply. Thousands of people said they feel offended by the message which tries to draw a conclusion that the late Sushant Singh has died because of depression.
This group of people loosely tend to believe that instead, Mr Rajput was killed by the ‘Bollywood Mafia’.
After screenshots of Flipkart’s page were shared by many social media users people filed grievances with Flipkart and one Twitterati @imrudrabha even served a notice against the online shopping platform for selling T-shirts with a misleading quote.
Another social media user wrote, “Country has not yet come out of the shock of Sushant’s tragic death. We will keep raising our voice for justice. Flipkart should be ashamed of this heinous act and should apologise so that such an incident will not be repeated again.#BoycottFlipkart”
The Australia Today is given to understand that after social media outrage Flipkart has removed the item from its list.
