Mumbai : The person threatened of raping Indian Cricketer, Skipper Virat Kohli’s nine-month old daughter Vamika was arrested by Mumbai police on Wednesday. The accused was a 23-year-old software engineer from Hyderabad.

Accused identified as Ramnagesh Alibathini has been the brought to Mumbai. According to the police, the accused is a Hyderabad resident, who earlier worked for a food delivery app and is now working in a software company.

incident took place after Kohli had shown his support for pacer Mohammed Shami, condemning the religion-based online attack after India had lost their opening encounter to arch-rivals Pakistan. Shami is the only Muslim player in India’s 15-member World Cup squad.
A screenshot started going viral, which showed user @criccrazyygirl making the distressing comment at Kohli’s infant daughter. After which the Delhi Council for Women (DCW) had taken a suo-motu congnisance of the incident, asking Delhi Police to file an FIR.

After India lost to Pakistan in T-20 World Cup at Dubsi recently, Shami faced online abuse because of his religion as trolls suggested that he should go to Pakistan. Kohli came under heavy trolling after he defended his teammate against Islamophobic comments and trolling that Shami himself had received.