Youth created fake Muslim identity to threaten BJP MLC in Karnataka
The Hindu
The accused faces charges of creating a fake Facebook profile in the name of Mushtaq Ali and threatening family members of BJP MLC D.S. Arun, who is son of former chairman of legislative council D.H. Shankarmurthy
Bagalkot police have arrested Siddharoodha Srikant Nirale, 31, who created a fake online identity of a Muslim youth to threaten a BJP legislator. He was produced in court and remanded in judicial custody.
The accused is a farmer from Shindi Kurbet village near Gokak in Belagavi district. Apart from cultivating crops, his family operates a nursery on the Gokak-Ghataprabha road.
The accused faces charges of creating a fake Facebook profile in the name of Mushtaq Ali and threatening family members of BJP MLC D.S. Arun, who is son of former chairman of legislative council D.H. Shankarmurthy.
Siddharoodha used some pictures from the social media profiles of random persons to build the profile. He began writing communally sensitive comments in response to news reports and statements of political leaders. He posted a series of comments after the murder of Harsha, a Bajrang Dal activist in Shivamogga. Later, he posted some communally sensitive messages using the social media handle ‘Mushtaq Ali’.
Siddharoodha also posted a message on D.S. Arun’s social media handle. One of his comments was: ‘You may think that a Hindu activist is dead today. But in the coming days, we will target your wife and children’.
The cyber, economics and narcotics police wing in Shivamogga had registered a case based on a complaint by the MLC.
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