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Pune: IT engineer, who threatened Sharad Pawar, arrested Pawar
Image Credit: Facebook/Sharad Pawar

Pune: IT engineer, who threatened Sharad Pawar, arrested

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | 12 Jun 2023, 11:03 am

Pune/UNI: A 34-year-old IT Engineer who threatened NCP President Sharad Pawar on social media has been arrested from Pune.

The accused identified as Sagar Barve was arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch from Pune.

Sagar, an IT engineer, was produced to local court who remanded police custody to bravery. Mumbai Crime Branch succeeded in arresting the person who threatened Sharad Pawar soon.

The Mumbai Crime Branch had registered a case at Lokmanya Tilak Marg Police Station since the day of incidents and various teams were formed to Nab the culprit.

Now police are investigating to find out why he took such a step and used social media to threaten the NCP Supremo pawar.

When Pawar received the death threats, the NCP workers had become aggressive across the state.

A NCP delegation led by party MP and daughter of sharad pawar Supriya Sule met the Mumbai Police Commissioner.

The party workers had demanded that action should be taken immediately against the Twitter handle that threatened to kill Sharad Pawar.

Swinging into action, Mumbai Police started their investigation and finally the crime branch succeeded in arresting the accused from pune.

Accused Barve is working in the information technology sector and police suspect that he created both the accounts.

Meanwhile, Politics Maharashtra has an account on this Facebook in the name 'Narmadabai Patvardhan'. In the post on it, a threat was addressed to Pawar that 'you will soon become Dabholkar'.

While the content that used offensive language against pawar from a Twitter handle of one Saurabh Pimpalkar. Now police are inquiring about both posts from Barve.

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