{"id":106328,"date":"2021-11-02T12:57:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T07:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=106328"},"modified":"2021-11-02T22:31:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T17:01:37","slug":"twitter-user-giving-rape-threat-to-virat-kohlis-daughter-is-indian-not-pakistani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/twitter-user-giving-rape-threat-to-virat-kohlis-daughter-is-indian-not-pakistani\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter user giving rape threat to Virat Kohli’s daughter is Indian, not Pakistani"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since Indian bowler, Mohammed Shami, was abused on social media after India’s loss to Pakistan in the T20 World Cup, there has been an organised effort to blame anonymous Pakistani accounts for targeting Shami. Indian cricket team caption Virat Kohli came out in support of Shami and condemned those who attacked him over his faith. A now-deleted Twitter handle ‘Amena @criccrazyygirl’<\/a> posted a tweet where the user threatened to rape Kohli’s daughter. It has now been claimed that @criccrazyygirl is a Pakistani bot account.<\/p>\n

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Once again it\u2019s a Pakistani bot\u2026. https:\/\/t.co\/a3iickCCcT<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/SMrpxTx5KP<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mr Sinha (@MrSinha_) October 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Several people made the claim while criticising those who called out the objectionable tweet.<\/p>\n

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A single tweet. From a Pakistani bot account. @borges<\/a> you\u2019re a journalist. Think hard about the voices you choose to amplify. And no, this has nothing to do with India. There\u2019s self awareness and self-critique and then there\u2019s propagandists with agendas to peddle. https:\/\/t.co\/TG73w5GMUG<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/QRY69uSwUE<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Aparna Mitra (@aparnamitra0) November 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here’s the tweet that @payalmehta100<\/a> deleted. This was based on tweet by a pakistani bot. https:\/\/t.co\/Q9MakFjl5z<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/pFXfCrlCp2<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rahul Kaushik (@kaushkrahul) October 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not a ‘Pakistani’ account<\/h4>\n

Alt News first searched for archived links of tweets by @criccrazyygirl<\/strong> to find the unique Twitter ID of the account. When we found a tweet on Wayback Machine<\/a>, we viewed the source code of the page and found that its unique Twitter id is ‘1386685474182369290’. Twitter’s policy allows a user to change their username, however, the numeric ID or the unique ID remains constant despite a change in the username as it is unique to that account.<\/p>\n

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We then looked for replies to @criccrazyygirl on Twitter and discovered some tweets that redirected to @ramanheist<\/strong>. This means both accounts were the same but the username was changed.<\/p>\n

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We applied the same process of finding archived tweets of @ramanheist on Wayback Machine and looked for the unique Twitter ID on the source code page. The unique ID is the same, as evident from the screenshot below.<\/p>\n

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We also found archived links of tweets where @ramanheist is talking about trading on NIFTY<\/a> which is an Indian stock market index. He also shared an email<\/a> by Zerodha, which is an Indian financial services company. This suggests that the person behind the account hails from India.<\/p>\n

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It is noteworthy that from its most recent username @criccrazyygirl, the account had retweeted tweets in Telugu which also hints it is an Indian account.<\/p>\n

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The earliest username that the person used to operate under, which Alt News was able to locate, was @pellikuturuhere<\/a>, which is a Telugu word. We found a reply to @pellikututuhere<\/strong> that suggested the person is from Hyderabad.<\/p>\n

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A further rummage of replies to @criccrazyygirl took us to a tweet where a user had replied to the account<\/a> but @cricccrazyygirl’s tweet is not visible since the account doesn’t exist anymore. We searched for an archived link of the reply on Wayback Machine and found that by the time Wayback Machine had crawled the tweet, the username of @criccrazyygirl had been changed to @StellaisBihp<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n