Journalist Sagarika Ghose received threat over Facebook

Team Udayavani, Sep 8, 2017, 1:08 PM IST

New Delhi: Journalist Sagarika Ghose received threat on Facebook.  Delhi Police cyber cell filed an FIR on Thursday against a man who openly threatened to eliminate five eminent persons including a noted journalist by calling them anti-national, a senior police officer said.

“We registered an FIR after receiving a complaint from Sagarika Ghose under the IT Act. In her complaint, Sagarika said she saw an open threat post from a man who has two different accounts by the names of ‘Vikram Aditya Rana’ and ‘Vikramjb Rana’ on Facebook. He is a native of Shillong,” said DCP Anyesh Roy.

Rana had posted on Facebook calling Ghose and four others as anti nationalist.

The police took into the matter when Ghose took it to her Twitter handle.

Here he is again : VikramAditya Rana on Facebook with a hit list. @DelhiPolice you need to check this pic.twitter.com/eJ8mnkLupu

— Sagarika Ghose (@sagarikaghose) September 6, 2017

Open death threat against Arundhati Roy, @kavita_krishnan @Shehla_Rashid and me. @DelhiPolice? @CPMumbaiPolice ? pic.twitter.com/9my4a5jbED

— Sagarika Ghose (@sagarikaghose) September 6, 2017