Mumbai: Cyber ​​crime police on Thursday arrested dropout from Bhopal for alleged posting obscene comments and the threat of death to an independent journalist.
Siddharth Shrivastav (24) charges are the first arrest and more arrests tend to be in this case.
The threat made by the defendant was among around 26,000 rude comments received by journalists.
Shrivastav handed himself before the cyber police after the notification was presented to him after they got the details through the Nodal Twitter office.
Cyber ​​police said Shrivastav had an account on Instagram named ‘Thomas Shelby, Fu **** G Peaky Blinder’, which is the name of the protagonist of the popular TV series recorded.
The police said he had threatened the journalist on his report, said this was “the last warning” and he “must take it seriously”.
He issued a threat of death and made explicit comments sexually opposed to it, police said.
Shrivastav works as a seller.
He was returned in Judicial custody.