In Vijayakumar v. State of Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court held that threatening to upload a woman’s private bathing video on social media amounts to criminal intimidation under Section 506 Part II IPC, as it constitutes a threat to impute “unchastity.” The Court clarified that the concept of unchastity must no longer be viewed through traditional patriarchal notions of morality but through the constitutional values of dignity, privacy, and sexual autonomy protected under Article 21. The accused had secretly recorded the woman while she was bathing and later threatened to publish the video online. Upholding his conviction, the Court observed that circulation of intimate images violates a woman’s bodily privacy, dignity, and reputation, regardless of whether the content depicts a sexual act. It further noted that in the digital era, online reputation forms an integral part of personal dignity. The Court also ruled that recovery of the mobile phone was not essential for conviction where credible oral evidence existed. However, considering the passage of time since 2015, the sentence was reduced to the period already undergone.