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First-year engineering student arrested for posting spiteful message on social network

In an another incident, following the Shamli protest, a young student was arrested in Pune for posting threats to Muslim community on micro-blogging site Twitter.

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A 20 year old student was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly tweeting that he would kill around 3000 Muslims.

Amitesh Singh, a first-year civil engineering student in Pune based college, on May 2 had posted this hateful message on his twitter account. The post drew attention after which several Muslims urged the police to take action against him.

According to a leading daily, Amitesh had claimed in his post that he was the vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Yuva Morcha. However, in the police investigation, it turned out to be a false claim. The party leaders told the investigators that Amitesh was neither a party activist nor an office-bearer.

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Inspector Satish Nikam told the daily that Amitesh regretted the post and deleted it. But the screenshots of his post were shared on the social networking site.

Amitesh is booked under sections 153(a) (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion) and 295(a) (deliberate and malicious act intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) of the Indian Penal Code and section 66(f) (punishment for cyber terrorism) of the IT Act.

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