3 min readBengaluruMay 4, 2023 10:46 PM IST
First published on: May 4, 2023 at 07:03 PM IST
The Bengaluru police have registered a case against 16 Twitter handles after Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair complained that he received death threats online and pork was sent to his house through courier.
Zubair, in his complaint, alleged that 16 Twitter handles were responsible for posting his address on social media and sending him death threats. His complaint also mentions that a Twitter user, @cyber_Huntss, also sent him pork through a pet food website during the Ramzan festival.
On April 9, @cyber_Huntss tweeted about sending a 400 gram packet of pork to Zubair and the house address of Zubair was disclosed. The tweet was deleted later.
In the FIR, names of one Ajeet Bharti and many others have been mentioned. In his complaint, Zubair said, “All these handles are using their social media presence to incite mob violence against me by disclosing my address, spreading lies and falsehoods about me and targeting my Muslim identity. This targeting of my identity is abundantly clear from the sending of pork that is not consumed by Muslims at all. To especially send the prohibited meat during the month of Ramzan is to target me for my religious identity and attack my dignity.”
“The above said persons have not only sought that I should be killed or harmed, but by targeting my Muslim identity they also incited ill will and promoted enmity between two religious groups / communities,” he alleged.
In his complaint, he said, “Ajeet Bharti, in a tweet on 06.03.2023, targeted and abused my religious identity by calling me ‘jiska kata hua hai’, which is a religious insult making reference to circumcision since I am a practising Muslim. Further, he referred to me as Potassium Oxide (chemical combination K2O), which is another reference to the religious slur “Katwo” which is used to dehumanise and abuse Muslim men. He has further made a completely false statement linking the killing of six Hindu men to me, which is an attempt to incite mob violence against me. He has a following of 118.5 thousand users on Twitter.”
DJ Halli police registered a case in this connection on April 17 but it came to light only on Thursday. The case was registered under sections 505 (public mischief), 153a (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace).
On April 9, @cyber_Huntss tweeted about sending a 400 gram packet of pork to Zubair and the house address of Zubair was disclosed. (File Photo) 
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