MUMBAI: Indian police have arrested a 23-year-old man who threatened to rape Virat Kohli’s infant daughter, as he defended Mohammed Shami after the team lost to Pakistan in its T20 World Cup.
A 23-year-old man had been arrested in the southern city of Hyderabad on Wednesday. The man was accused of threatening the Indian player’s daughter after, Virat Kohli’s manager had filed a police complaint against the rape threat, posted from an anonymous handle.
However, according to Indian media reports the 23-year-old man who was arrested is an engineer who lives in Hyderabad. Later the screenshots of his alleged rape threat went viral on social media, he reportedly changed his name on Twitter to pose as a resident of Pakistan. Meanwhile, an Indian fact-checking website later identified him as Indian.
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Earlier, In October last year, the very toxicity and vile nature of extremism had taken a similar and frightening turn after an Instagram user sent rape threats to MS Dhoni’s then five-year-old daughter. The disturbing threat surfaced after Chennai Super Kings (CSK) lost against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, according to the Free Press Journal.
