A man who allegedly threatened Congress’ Priyanka Chaturvedi on twitter with the rape of her daughter, has been arrested. The arrest came following the intervention of Union home minister Rajnath Singh. The man, identified as Girish Maheshwari, was arrested from Ahmedabad and will be produced at a court in Mumbai today.
A tweet posted by the handle @GirishK1605 threatened Ms Chaturvedi’s 10-year-old daughter. A case was registered after she lodged a formal complaint with the police.
Ms Chaturvedi had told that the harassment began after a fake quote on the recent gang-rape of a seven-year-old in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur was attributed to her.
In her complaint, the Congress spokesperson mentioned that the unidentified Twitter troll, despite using an image of Lord Ram in the profile picture, didn’t think twice before making such a threat.
