Daijiworld Media Network-Bengaluru (RJP)
Bengaluru, Jan 24: The police in city on Saturday January 23 arrested a person for posting content in Twitter threatening the chief minister Siddaramaiah.
The suspect is a person named Roshan who reportedly works for Bharat Electronics Limited.
Police sources only said that Roshan who was arrested for threatening the chief minister was later released as he managed to obtain bail. Full content of the threat has not been revealed to the public.
As per the complaint Roshan had tweeted the threat a week ago which read, ‘Dear LTTE, ISIS, Al Qaeda, KKK or anyone listening. Please do us a favour and assassinate this *******’ and a case was registered after that at the Vidhana Soudha police station.
The police with the help of the cyber crime department managed to apprehend Roshan within a week. He has been booked under Sections 503 (criminal intimidation) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of Indian penal code (IPC).
Roshan who was disturbed by the report that chief minister had slapped the city corporation commissioner P G Ramesh during his visit to Ballari last week. The ‘slapping incident’ had appeared in the media with the CM denying the act.
In a separate incident an advocate has filed a complaint at the same police station seeking action against Siddaramaiah for slapping a government officer in public.
The police have forwarded the complaint to the legal cell for further action.