Darshan fan arrested for threatening film producer

Bengaluru, NT Bureau: The Basaveshwara Nagar police on Tuesday arrested an accused, who claimed to be one of the fans of arrested actor Darshan Thogudeepa, in connection with issuing a threat to a Kannada film producer over comments on the Renukaswamy murder case.

The accused was identified as Chetan and the police claimed to have arrested him from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. The police have launched a hunt for another accused Nagesh, who is also accused of threatening an actor recently.

The action was taken based on an FIR filed against the accused at Basaveshwara Nagar Police Station in Bengaluru. According to the complaint, the accused had issued life threats to film producer Umapathy Gowda and Kannada actor Pratham.

Earlier, Umapathy Gowda and Pratham had given their opinions against the actor and sympathised with the victim Renukasamy who was kidnapped and tortured to death allegedly by Darshan, his partner Pavithra Gowda and 15 others.

Arrested accused Chetan, later, made a video apologising for his act of issuing threats and promised that he would abide by the law. The video has gone viral on social media.