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Student arrested for posting hate message on social network
Ref: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-first-year-engineering-student-arrested-for-posting-spiteful-message-on-social-network-2083908
Pune, Maharashtra

A 20 year old student was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly tweeting that he would kill around 3000 Muslims.

Amitesh Singh, a first-year civil engineering student in Pune based college, on May 2 had posted this hateful message on his twitter account. The post drew attention after which several Muslims urged the police to take action against him.

According to a leading daily, Amitesh had claimed in his post that he was the vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Yuva Morcha. However, in the police investigation, it turned out to be a false claim. The party leaders told the investigators that Amitesh was neither a party activist nor an office-bearer.