A day after a Keralite journalist received a threat message on Facebook Wednesday, apparently for her critical posts on demonetization, the Bengaluru police are yet to take any action to nab the culprit.
"I had mailed the cyber cell of the police informing them about the threat message (Wednesday)," Tresa Sherin Morera told Onmanorama over phone. "But I'm yet to receive any response."
The offender, who used the name Abhishek Sridharan on his profile page, however, seems to have deactivated his FB account. Onmanorama could not confirm if that was his real name and the photo used on his profile was his or a fake one.
Tresa, who is from Kochi and works as an editor in an international news agency in Bengaluru, shared the threat message she received on her Facebook inbox. It read:
"Hey Tresa, you seem to be anti Indian, ma'am. We know exactly where you live in Bangalore, we will make sure your heinous deeds will be exonerated."
He might have used the word 'exonerated' by mistake, and could have meant something more menacing. But "it is chilling to know that he says he knows exactly where I live," Tresa said, adding she could not figure out what exactly triggered the threat message.
Tresa had messaged him seeking an apology but he has not responded yet. The message read: "You owe me an apology for threatening me on Facebook. I would happily accept your apology as an ignorant person's bout of anger, if you truly are sorry. There is no shame in that, my friend."
Tresa suspects that the threat could be because of her critical social media posts about the demonetization move that scrapped the old Rs 500-1,000 notes.
The journalist also said that she was not sure if the threat had anything to do with her criticism on a viral post written on former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa after the politician's death.
Tresa had shared the post first, praising it but removed the praises later and took to Facebook to point out that the contents of the write-up was lifted from an article in The New York Times published online and that it amounted to plagiarism. She had been trolled after that.