Mumbai Police arrest man for giving death threat to minor girl over post on Udaipur murder

Mumbai Police, with help of Jammu and Kashmir Police, have arrested a 30-year-old man from Budgam district for allegedly threatening a 16-year-old girl over her social media post wherein she expressed her views on murder of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Rajasthan's Udaipur.

girl, a resident of Girgaon in south Mumbai, registered a complaint at VP Ro police station in connection with same. Acting on technical analysis and or details, a team of VP Ro Police Station was sent to Srinagar, J&K and a 30-year-old man were apprehended from Budgam with help of local police on Saturday, July 9, night. 

accused was brought back to Mumbai on July 9 evening. He was produced before Court on July 11, which remanded him to three days of police custody. "Furr investigation in this matter is on," officials said.

" girl h me some remarks over killing of Kanhaiya Lal on her Facebook wall. After that, an unidentified person me a WhatsApp call to her and threatened to kill her for her comments in post," official said. 

Kanhaiya Lal was murdered at his tailoring shop in Udaipur for posting a message on social media in support of suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma. National Investigation Agency (NIA) has so far me seven arrests, including two prime accused who h also recorded gruesome incident on phone.

A week before that - on June 21 - a chemist, Umesh Kolhe, was murdered in Maharashtra's Amravati for same reason, officials have said. 

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