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MUMBAI: Juhu police on Wednesday arrested a 25-year-old tour and travel firm employee for derogatory tweets against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.

Aniket Patil was tracked to his Goregaon residence after a case was registered against him and ad filmmaker Ram Subramanian, who police are looking for. A BJP party worker lodged the complaint against Patil and Subramanian on May 14 after he noticed the alleged comments against Modi on social media. The complaint against Subramanian came after his jibe at the PM and his mother on Mother's Day. "Patil was tracked with the help of the IP address of his mobile, from where he posted the derogatory comments in between May 1-14," said a Juhu police officer.

A case was filed against the two under Indian Penal Code sections 153 (a) (promoting enmity), 500 (defamation), 501 (printing or engraving matter known to be defamatory), 503 & 506 (2) (criminal intimidation), 505 (2) (public mischief), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult) and under the IT Act section 67 (publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form)

Police had registered a case against a Twitter user for allegedly posting objectionable tweets against NCP MP Supriya Sule last November. The case was registered at Vartak Nagar police station, based on a complaint by NCP MLA Jitendra Awhad.

