On Wednesday, Mumbai Police arrested a 23-year-old software engineer from Hyderabad in connection to making rape threats social to Vamika Kohli, the daughter of India’s men team captain, Virat Kohli. According to the initial reports, the accused is a Hyderabad resident, working as a software engineer.

All this started after Virat Kohli came in support of the fast bowler, Mohammed Shami against the social media trolling on communal lines following the pacer’s expensive spell in the match against Pakistan in the T20 World Cup in UAE. 

After screenshots of alleged rape threats started going viral on various social media platforms, including Twitter, BoomLive had reported that one such threat was made by a Twitter user who went by the name @ramanheist earlier and had recently changed the handle name to @criccrazyygirl to pose as a Pakistani cricket fan.

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The Twitter account @Criccrazyygirl issued rape threats to Virat and Anushka Sharma’s nine-month-old daughter. A livid Kohli had hit back at “spineless trolls” who attacked Shami’s religion after the team lost to Pakistan in its inaugural T20 World Cup 2021 game and said targeting people for their faith is “the most pathetic thing” to do.

Virat Kohli had said, “This is the lowest level of the human form, attacking someone over religion is the most pathetic thing a human being can do. Never thought of discriminating on basis of religion. That is a very sacred thing. Our brotherhood and friendship can’t be shaken… and these things can’t infiltrate. I give credit to people who understand us.”

To recall, the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) had also issued a notice to Delhi Police over online rape threats to Virat Kohli’s daughter. DCW Chairperson Swati Maliwal took to Twitter and urged the police to share information regarding the investigation in the case.

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Maliwal had said, “The way the nine-month-old was threatened on Twitter is very shameful. The team has made us proud thousands of times, why this silliness in defeat.”