Death threats to Zubair

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Fact Checker and journalist Mohammed Zubair filed a complaint with the city police after he is alleged to have received a series of death threats on Twitter by an unidentified user.

According to sources from police, a post shared to Zubair by a twitter handle named as @Cyber_Huntss stated that the user was sending Zubair a 400 gram packet of pork. The miscreant also shared the fact-checker's house address in the post before deleting it later. Zubair approached the jurisdictional police station and registered a complaint regarding the post alleging threat to his safety and a possible mob violence against him.

However this is not the first time that the 41-year old fact-checker has received a death threat. The DJ Halli police filed an FIR under 505 (Defamation), 153A (Promoting enmity between different groups), 506 (Criminal Intimidation) and 504 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) of the IPC.