MUMBAI: A delivery man was arrested from Kurla late on Thursday on charges of spitting on a 25-year-old Manipuri

at Kalina on April 6 in an alleged act of racial discrimination.

The cops pressed in three teams and used technical expertise to track down Amir Mohammed Elias, 23, after the

for Women took up the case and tweeted about it.

The woman and a friend were walking in the afternoon from Geeta Vihar Junction towards the Military Camp in Kalina to collect essential goods distributed by the police when, she said in her complaint, the biker came close to her, took off his mask and spat on her. It could expose her to the

threat, she said. Elias has claimed that he chews paan and the act was not intentional.

Vakola senior inspector

said a case under IPC sections 270 (malignant act likely to spread infection) and 352 (punishment for assault or criminal force) has been registered against Elias. The police had scanned footage from over 100 CCTV cameras, dump data of over 1.5 lakh mobile users who were in the area around that time and used an app to enhance the blurred image of Elias’ bike’s registration plate to locate him, said DCP (zone VIII)

.