Muslim man abuses PM Modi, cows on WhatsApp, arrested

Hazaribag police in Jharkhand arrested a 25-year-old Muslim man late on Monday for allegedly abusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and cows in a video that recently went viral on WhatsApp, SP Anup Birthare said on Tuesday.

The accused, Mohammad Arif, was remanded in 14-day police custody on Tuesday.

Arif, who was arrested from Keredari block in Hazaribag, about 95 km from the state capital Ranchi, is a motorcycle mechanic, police said.

“The content in the video was explicitly provocative. Any person found spreading communally sensitive content in social media will not be spared,” Birthare said.

In the video, Arif had allegedly disrespected cows and also threatened to slaughter cows openly, police sources said. He had shot the video and was also the first person to share it on WhatsApp, they said.