Hyderabad: The techie arrested by Mumbai police on Wednesday for rape threats to the toddler daughter of Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli and actor Anushka Sharma, is a graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad and was getting ready to pursue greater research within the United States.

Ramnagesh Akubathini, son of an worker of Ordnance Factory Medak, was arrested from his home on the ordnance manufacturing facility quarters at Yeddumailaram in Sangareddy district.

The 23-year-old software program engineer was taken to Mumbai, the place a case was booked towards him after he tweeted a rape risk following India’s defeat to Pakistan on the ICC Twenty20 World Cup on October 24.

Ramnagesh’s father Srinivas Akubathini works as a fitter on the ordnance manufacturing facility which manufactures armoured autos for the Indian military. He and his good friend have gone to Mumbai to safe bail for his son.

A local of Rangareddy district close to Hyderabad, Ramnagesh is reported to be identified for on-line trolling utilizing pretend identities.

According to his family, he’s a passionate follower of the Indian cricket staff and when it misplaced to Pakistan and New Zealand he was offended. They consider that he could have typed a message in anger and although he didn’t intend to tweet it, the cell phone slipped out of his hand and the message bought posted.

According to Ramnagesh’s household he was working for a number one meals supply app in Bengaluru for an annual pay bundle of almost Rs 24 lakh however give up the job a month in the past to organize for a grasp’s diploma within the US.

They stated he was referred to as a brilliant pupil since his faculty days. He was a category 10 topper and secured 2,367 within the IIT-JEE to get admission into IIT Hyderabad, from the place he handed out two years in the past.

The police investigation to this point has revealed that he tweeted the rape risk utilizing a pretend account after Virat Kohli got here out in assist of teammate Mohammed Shami who was being trolled after India’s defeat to Pakistan on October 24.

Ramnagesh used Twitter deal with @criccrazyygirl to publish the rape risk and pretended to be a Pakistani consumer.

As the tweet screenshot went viral and was flagged to the police in Mumbai and Delhi, the accused deleted his Twitter deal with @ramanheist.

However, the actual fact checking web sites had already tracked down his Twitter deal with and located that he was additionally utilizing one other deal with, @pellikuturuhere. ‘Pellikuturu’ means ‘bride’ in Telugu and this indicated that the Twitter deal with belonged to a Telugu-speaking individual.

The Mumbai police reportedly booked him beneath Indian Penal Code sections 354(A) (sexual harassment), 506 (felony intimidation), 500 (defamation) and beneath Information Technology Act sections 67, 67(B) (punishment for publishing or transmitting of fabric depicting youngsters within the sexually express act, in digital type).

(IANS)