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Journalist Sagarika Ghose received threat over Facebook

01:08 PM Sep 08, 2017 | Team Udayavani |

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.

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“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.

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