Pak journo Tarar threatened with rape, informs Mumbai Police about tweet

18 January,2016 10:26 AM IST |   |  A Correspondent

A distasteful tweet, directed at renowned columnist from Pakistan, Mehr Tarar, created an uproar on twitter, including comments from many people from India as well as Pakistan condemning the post


Renowned columnist from Pakistan, Mehr Tarar, is now one of the most well known faces to be seen tweeting to the Mumbai Police's handle.

And when it concerns the police, it cannot be too good a news. Tarar was seen tweeting on Sunday evening about a man tweeting @Ganeshnoa (Ganesh Aiyer) who threatened that many Indians were waiting to rape Mehr in India.

‘Mehr never dre 2 come India. Aftr ur dirty statement, thre r many Hindus eagerly waiting to rape U' read his tweet. The tweet which also tagged Rajdeep Sardesai & Tarek Fatah, was sent on 8.48 pm on January 17.

Mehr Tarar (Pic courtesy Mehr Tarar's Twitter account)

While he deleted the tweet on being being tagged with Mumbai Police as well as Mehr by another user Rohan Kadam, Mehr was quick on adding that though the tweet was deleted, the screenshot still remained. She shared the screenshot of the tweet with Mumbai Police too.

This tweet created an uproar on twitter including comments from many people from India as well as Pakistan condemning the tweet. The Mumbai police responded to the Pak columnists ordeal claiming that they had forwarded the message to the concerned authority.

In response to the Mumbai police's response Meher, who was once in news for her links with Shashi Tharoor, thanked the cops for their timely response.

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