Youth arrested for threatening to kill DC

Mangaluru: The Mangaluru city police arrested a youth for threatening to kill deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh on social media. The arrested accused is Ranjith,20, a resident of Mijar, and a welder by profession. He is booked under Indian Penal Code sections 505, 506,507 and 189.
Sources from the police department, who are probing the incident, said that Ranjith was added to a WhatsApp group Ram Sena Abhimani. When people were criticizing the deputy commissioner on her diktat about cattle smuggling, on the group, Ranjith threatened to take her life. “The accused is unaware about who is a deputy commissioner and their role,” said a source. A case has been registered at the Moodbidri police station.