New Delhi: The Delhi Police has arrested a 19-year-old man from Lucknow in connection with a chat on the Clubhouse app in which inappropriate and abusive statements were made about women, according to official sources.
A squad was dispatched to Lucknow, and Rahul Kapoor, who enrolled himself on the app with the user-ID 'Bismillah,' was apprehended, ANI reported quoting a Police official.
"Kapoor has claimed that he created an audio chat room on the instructions of a person, he identified as ‘Sallos’ & later handed him over the moderator key. Kapoor’s mobile phone has been seized & he will be joining the investigation in Delhi by evening," Deputy Commissioner of Police KPS Malhotra was quoted by ANI on its official Twitter handle.
Earlier in the day, Delhi Police summoned Rahul who is a resident of Lucknow to join the probe in a case in which obscene and derogatory remarks were made against Muslim women on an audio chat application
The suspect's father works as an accountant at Army Public School in Lucknow Cantt.
The arrest came a day after Mumbai Police apprehended three guys from Haryana in affiliation with the chat. Based on a complaint from a lady, the Mumbai crime branch's cyber unit filed a case against the three accused under sections 153(a), 295(a), 354(a), 354(d) of the IPC, and section 67 of the Information Technology Act 2000. Akash, Jeshnav Kakkar, and Yash Parashar were named as the accused.
Earlier this week, on January 17, a video of a Clubhouse conversation on the topic 'Muslim gals are more beautiful than hindu gals' went viral on social media.
In the conversation, the participants were allegedly heard making obscene, vulgar and derogatory remarks targeting Muslim women and girls.