Dr. Sunitha Krishnan, aged 42, is a renowned social activist and is a member of the State Women's Commission, Andhra Pradesh. She is the Chief Functionary and Founder of Prajwala, a non-governmental organization that rescues, rehabilitates and reintegrates sex-trafficked victims into society. When in 1996 sex workers living in Mehboob ki Mehandi, a red light area in Hyderabad, were evacuated, Krishnan started a transition school at a vacated brothel to prevent the second generation from being trafficked. She earlier worked with People's Initiative Network also in Hyderabad. According to sources, Sunitha has been carrying out an online campaign against rapists who have been uploading videos of their victims being molested. She had sought help from all the people viewing them, to trace them. The two videos were sent to her by her friend on WhatsApp where it has been in circulation for the past 6 months. The videos show young men molesting women and laughing and joking after committing the heinous crime. Sunitha edited the video in order to protect the victims and posted the video which had the faces of the perpetrators visible so that the public and the law enforcement authorities could identify and apprehend them. The attack on her car happened soon after she posted the two videos. Stones were hurled at the windscreen at the back of her car. Immediately after the incident, she filed a complaint with the Hyderabad Police following which a case under Section 427 of the Indian Penal Code was registered.