After Sapna Gill arrest, one more popular female Instagram influencer booked, may be arrested soon?

MUMBAI: After the arrest of Instagram influencer Sapna Gill and seven others for thrashing the car of cricketer Prithvi Shaw by the Oshiwara police in suburban Mumbai, one more female influencer is likely to be booked soon.

The police are investigating the complaint filed by a woman director and producer based at Lokhandwala in Mumbai, who has alleged that the influencer outraged her modesty and abused and threatened her online.

After carrying out a preliminary enquiry we will register the FIR based on the instructions of our seniors, a police official said, confirming that they have received the written complaint of the victim who was harassed online after the influencer shared her personal mobile numbers on the social media networking site.

According to the victim’s complaint, a copy of which has been accessed by this website, the victim blocked the influencer on Instagram and WhatsApp after the latter used very threatening, abusive and vulgar language with her during a misunderstanding on some work-related issue.

Angered by the fact that she was blocked, the accused woman went ahead and posted vulgar comments on her own Instagram page against the victim and made public the victim’s personal mobile numbers, after which she began getting calls from unknown numbers asking for sexual favours and her charges for sex. The police are investigating this case.

The accused influencer in her post told viewers to contact the victim for sex and mentioned her personal mobile numbers in the post.

Meanwhile, Sapna Gill and seven others Thursday were arrested by the Oshiwara Police station, after a case of rioting, criminal intimidation and extortion was registered against them for allegedly attacking Indian cricketer Prithvi Shaw’s car with a baseball bat following a tiff over taking selfies outside a restaurant near Vile Parle East off the Western Express highway.

Sapna Gill will be produced in court on Friday.

The Oshiwara police in suburban Mumbai registered a case against the eight accused including Sapna Gill under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 148 (rioting), 384 (extortion), 506 (criminal intimidation) and others.