Arrest made over alleged threats to Kohli's daughter

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A 23-year-old antheral has been arrested successful India for allegedly threatening to rape the babe girl of the country's cricket captain, Virat Kohli, arsenic squad members look a barrage of online maltreatment pursuing their disappointing T20 World Cup campaign.

The antheral was arrested successful the confederate metropolis of Hyderabad connected Wednesday for allegedly posting the menace to Twitter, according to the cyber transgression subdivision of Mumbai police. Sexual harassment, transgression intimidation and defamation are among the charges helium faces, constabulary added.

Kohli shares a 10-month-old girl with his wife, Bollywood histrion Anushka Sharma. The tweet has since been taken down and the man's relationship has been suspended.

In a connection emailed to CNN Friday, Twitter said it did not tolerate maltreatment connected its platform.

"While we promote radical to explicit themselves freely connected Twitter, abuse, harassment and hateful behaviour proceed to person nary spot connected our service," the connection said.

India -- 1 of the tourney favorites -- failed to beforehand to the last stages of the T20 World Cup pursuing defeats to New Zealand and archrival Pakistan that were met with a flood of maltreatment against the squad connected societal media.

Bowler Mohammed Shami, the lone Muslim subordinate successful India's squad, bore the brunt of the vitriol pursuing Pakistan's 10-wicket triumph connected October 24 -- the archetypal clip India had mislaid to its neighbour successful a World Cup match.

Shami was targeted connected Instagram and Twitter by radical who blamed him for the loss, with immoderate posting Islamophobic messages.

During a quality league connected October 30, Kohli criticised the "spineless radical connected societal media" who attacked Shami.

"To me, attacking idiosyncratic implicit their religion is the astir pathetic happening that a quality being tin do," Kohli said.

"We basal by him fully, we're backing him 200 percent... our brotherhood, our relationship wrong the squad -- thing tin beryllium shaken."

Indian cricket fable Sachin Tendulkar besides tweeted successful enactment of Shami, calling him a "world-class bowler."

Whenever India loses against Pakistan, the trolling develops a "very peculiar, disturbing, parochial character," according to cricket writer and erstwhile Indian National Congress enactment spokesperson Sanjay Jha.

"(When) Mohammad Shami underperforms, the connection done net trolling is that he's anti-national and a traitor," Jha said.

The maltreatment is symptomatic of a larger ambiance of distrust against Indian Muslims, helium added.

Despite wide online maltreatment -- particularly against women and Muslims -- arrests of trolls are uncommon successful India.

Legal experts and activists person pointed to the country's lackluster cybersecurity laws and bureaucracy that dilatory down investigations.

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