Mangaluru, Mar 19: Issuing threat to Congress veteran B Janardhana Poojary on social media, has led to the arrest of an Indian expatriate worker soon after his return to India.
The arrested has been identified as Hakim, a resident of Puttur, who was working in Dubai. He was arrested in the early morning on Tuesday, while he landed at the Mangalore International Airport, after arriving from Dubai.
Police said that several complaints against Hakim were registered in December last year, and an investigation was taken up into these issues. He had created and sent an audio recording on WhatsApp that former Union minister Janardhan Poojary should be killed in an encounter.
Hakim allegedly recorded this after Janardhana Poojary told the media at the Kudroli temple in December last year that a Ram temple will be built in Ayodhya at any cost. “Ram mandir is the aspiration of Hindus, Muslims and Christians. Nobody is against it,” Poojary told the media at the time. His statement had received a mixed response. While some opposed it, the rest of the people appreciated it.
Days after Poojary’s comment on the Ayodhya issue, a voice message belonging to a young man, who introduced himself as a Congress activist, which contained a death threat, went viral on social media.
The cyber police, who investigated the audio clip, learnt that it was made by Hakim, who was working in Dubai. Police kept a watch about his arrival to India, and succeeded in arresting him on Tuesday. The court remanded him in judicial custody.
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