Bollywood singer of yesteryear, Abhijeet, caused a considerable Twitter buzz on Saturday after his tweets replete with ‘filth’ targetted journalists on the microblogging site.
Abhijeet, known for his support for the right-wing extremist politics, launched a Twitter tirade against journalist Swati Chaturvedi and www.jantakareporter.com’s editor-in-chief, Rifat Jawaid. Little did he envisage then that the battle on social media will result in potential cases of sexual assault and trying to disturb law and order against him.
It all started with the singer astonishingly declaring the murder of an Infosys techie in Chennai as a case of Love Jihad, implying that her murderer was a Muslim.
The suspected murderer arrested by Chennai Police was Ramkumar and not a Muslim.
Swati and many took to Twitter demanding Mumbai Police to act against the former singer for allegedly trying to cause riots by stoking religious tension.
User Priyashmita Guha tweeted, “This man should be arrested.”
this man should be arrested https://t.co/JcspL7pX5N
— ??????????? ???? (@priyashmita) July 2, 2016
Swati Chaturvedi tweeted, “.@abhijeetsinger is jealous of Pakistani singers who took his mediocre career! Even tried to incite SS against them!”
.@abhijeetsinger is jealous of Pakistani singers who took his mediocre career! Even tried to incite SS against them! https://t.co/OMTiYC6oSC
— Swati Chaturvedi (@bainjal) July 2, 2016
This prompted the singer to, what many felt, cross all decency by hurling choicest of abuses at the woman journalist. “बेशर्म बुढ़िया..U not proud of Indians? Wats your breed? U sk pakis..I fk Pakis, U lick..I kick, dnt block just wait.(sic)”
https://twitter.com/abhijeetsinger/status/749258258188296192
Rifat Jawaid intervened sarcastically describing the former singer’s action as very sanskari (culturally appropriate.)
Rifat tweeted, “So sanskari.”
So Sanskari!! https://t.co/KIop1k1bHw
— Rifat Jawaid (@RifatJawaid) July 2, 2016
By this time Abhijeet was getting unprecedented Twitter roasting, but they had very little impact on his action.
He was quick to respond to Rifat by indulging in name calling.
He said, “Yes we Hindustani kick Paki supporters .. That’s our proud Sanskar .. समझे सफ़ेद छछून्दर ?”
https://twitter.com/abhijeetsinger/status/749262641080725504
Rifat replied calling him a paper tiger, who lacked courage to fight at the border.
He tweeted, “Kick from your living room? Hv balls, go to border. Lekin wahan patloon geeli ho jayegi! Keep lickin! Tat’s wat ur breed do.”
Kick from your living room? Hv balls, go to border. Lekin wahan patloon geeli ho jayegi! Keep lickin! Tat's wat ur breed do @abhijeetsinger
— Rifat Jawaid (@RifatJawaid) July 2, 2016
Meanwhile, Swati had already approached the Mumbai Police complaining of an attack on her modesty by the former singer.
She wrote, “Pure filth @MumbaiPolice he’s trying to forment communal riots & abuse rather obvious. Why no action?”
Please visit the local police station and lodge Complaint as well as contact to Cyber Police Station Contact No. 022-26504008
— Mumbai Police (@MumbaiPolice) July 2, 2016
Mumbai Police advised her to lodge a complaint against Abhijeet at her local police station in Delhi.
Little later, Mumbai Police also informed her that it had taken cognisance of the right-wing former singer’s attempt to allegedly cause riots by spreading false information.
We have followed you. Please DM your contact details. Talking to you at length may help us understand the situation better.
— Mumbai Police (@MumbaiPolice) July 2, 2016
Abhijeet is not new to facing allegations of sexual assaults. Last year in October, a 34-year-old woman had accused him of sexually assaulting her. The woman in her complaint had accused Abhijeet of touching her inappropriately and abusing her during a concert of singer Kailash Kher.
So, what started as a usual rant by a former singer visibly disgruntled with life, turned out to be an episode he may profusely regret in time to come.
Meanwhile Twitter users continued to express their views critical of Abhijeet.
Here are some examples;
https://twitter.com/NisargaDhara/status/749275112210243584
Absolute disgust how this motormouth is addressing @bainjal & @RifatJawaid !
He's such a shame to Bollywood ! Yuck ! pic.twitter.com/UWhxRMG917— कोमल 🙂 ?? (@Komal_Indian) July 2, 2016
Despicable! this scum @abhijeetsinger should be arrested @CPMumbaiPolice https://t.co/GcvWy1Smsy
— Preeti Sharma Menon (@PreetiSMenon) July 2, 2016
Maybe alleged singer-molester Abhijit can sing for his supper in jail https://t.co/2st5CbLLJ0
— IndiaExplained (@IndiaExplained) July 2, 2016
ma'am he's complete vela , frustrated nd hungry fr publicity…ignore?
— आम आदमी (@commonman_says) July 2, 2016
@RifatJawaid @bainjal ignore him @abhijeetsinger,his singing career is over he must be looking for post like Nihalani, gajendra,Chauhan etc
— Shah Aasim Riyaz (@aasim01) July 2, 2016
— J'accuse (@moi_artiste) July 2, 2016
https://twitter.com/MsSantoesha/status/749264055391641601
https://twitter.com/Rakupadhyay/status/749277334465839104
I'll loose all hopes in law if @abhijeetsinger is not brought to book. So much filth. https://t.co/nytxTzFq4q
— Altaf Qadri (@AltafQadriAP) July 2, 2016