A person from Hyderabad has been arrested over rape threats to Virat Kohli’s baby daughter after Indian captain came to the defence of Mohammad Shami who was targeted for his religious background.
Ramnagesh Srinivas Akubathini, 23, was arrested by a special team of the Mumbai Police this afternoon.
He allegedly changed his Twitter handle and pretended to be a Pakistani user after cops started investigating screenshots of the threats. He has been taken to Mumbai.
Police sources say he is a software engineer and currently unemployed. He has reportedly worked for a food delivery app in the past.
There was national outrage over the sickening threats targeting the nine-month-old daughter of cricket captain Virat Kohli and actor Anushka Sharma last week
The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) had also called for an investigation. The panel had issued notice to the Delhi police, asking to see an FIR (first information report), details of those identified and arrested, and a detailed “action taken report”.
Vicious comments started appearing on social media after India’s loss to Pakistan in the T20 World Cup in Dubai on October 24. Virat Kohli was also attacked after he spoke out against the incessant trolling of his teammate, Mohammed Shami, over his religion, after the loss.
Virat Kohli had put out a powerful message for Mohammad Shami, calling out “spineless” people on social media. “Attacking someone over their religion is the most pathetic thing one can do as a human. That is a very sacred and personal thing. People take out their frustration because they have no understanding of what we do,” he told reporters before a match.
