Ramnagesh Akubathini who tweeted rape threats to Virat Kohli-Anushka Sharma daughter remanded to police custody

The 23-year-old man booked for allegedly posting rape threats on Twitter against the infant child of Indian cricketer Virat Kohli and Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma has been remanded to police custody by a Mumbai court for five days. .The accused Ramnagesh Akubathini, a software engineer, was produced before the Metropolitan Magistrate Court at Bandra on Thursday when the public prosecutor informed the Court that Akubathini had constantly altered his profile on social media to troll the cricketer before he could be tracked down.The Magistrate then remanded Akubathini to police custody till November 15, 2021..Akubathini, a State topper and a graduate from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad had allegedly posted objectionable tweets against the 10 month daughter of Kohli and Sharma after Indian cricket team lost the T20 world cup match on October 24 against Pakistan.The loss had led to online abuses against another cricketer Mohammad Shami who was singled out for his religion. Kohli had, however, sprung to the defence of Shami leading to outrage against the star batsman. .Mumbai Police had intercepted Akubathini in Hyderabad on Wednesday where he was working as a software engineer.The arrest was made after the Cyber wing of Mumbai Police had registered a case based on a complaint by Kohli's manager..Posting online threats against a 10 month child which is widely available to the public is not only shameful for womenkind but also slanderous against the parents, Mumbai Police said in its press release.The Delhi Commission for Women had also taken suo motu cognizance of online rape threats and sought details of cases registered by the Delhi Police in light of the threats..Akubathini has been booked under Sections 354A (outraging modesty), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 500 (defamation) of the Indian Penal Code along with Sections 67 and 67B of the Information Technology Act (IT Act) for publishing or transmitting obscene material and sexually explicit material against children in electronic form.If convicted, the maximum punishment for committing the offences was under the IT Act, with an imprisonment of upto 5 years and/or fine upto ₹10 lakhs.