The account was reported to Twitter and it was deactivated the same day. This was before he gave out his address when another tweeter threatened to report him to Twitter and the police.
Source/Credit: The Hindu
By The Hindu | August 4, 2015
The city police have tracked down and arrested a cloth merchant from the city, who had tweeted from an anonymous account, threatening to bomb a mosque in the city. The arrested has been identified as Sarfuddin, 42.
The accused was operating an anonymous twitter handle and on July 13, in response to a tweet, he had replied threatening to bomb the mosque belonging to a particular sect.
The account was reported to Twitter and it was deactivated the same day. This was before he gave out his address when another tweeter threatened to report him to Twitter and the police.
This tweet was brought to the notice of the mosque administration in Wilson Garden, Bengaluru, who lodged a complaint with the Wilson Garden police on July 13.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Sandeep Patil told The Hindu that an IP address analysis revealed that the tweet went out from a mobile phone. “We tracked down the phone to a cloth merchant in Bengaluru, Sarfuddin. He was in Belagavi on a business trip from where we arrested him,” he said.
Investigations have revealed that there was no sinister plot and it was a communal rant on social media like any hoax call, he added.
Investigations revealed that there was no real danger
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