Bagalkot police have arrested Siddharoodha Srikant Nirale, 31, who created a fake online identity of a Muslim youth to threaten a BJP legislator. He was produced in court and remanded in judicial custody.
The accused is a farmer from Shindi Kurbet village near Gokak in Belagavi district. Apart from cultivating crops, his family operates a nursery on the Gokak-Ghataprabha road.