Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput's last film Dil Bechara is going to be released soon on the OTT platform by 24 July and fans are excited for the same. Swastika Mukherjee, the actress of this film, has been receiving threatening responses for rape and acid attack on social media, lately, she was also trolled on social media and after that, she started receiving the threats.
Recently, Swastika Mukherjee has told through a long post on social media that fake news has led to intimidating responses from people. She has written in the post- 'On June 26, days after my co-actor in the upcoming movie 'Dil Bechara' Sushant Singh Rajput's tragic death, there was a media report that falsely quoted me saying that suicides are now in fashion. Following this, there were fierce online attacks on me, including rape and death threats," said Swastika, on her verified Facebook account on Friday evening. She further wrote in her post, '"I would like to inform you that the person behind the fake news posted on www.smritinews.in, Shivam Chakraborty from Galsi, Bardhaman, Bengal has been arrested by the Kolkata Cyber Crime Department. He has accepted that he carried the false quote on the news portal and circulated it on social media," she added.
Along with this, Koushik Das from Hooghly, who had sent me acid attack and rape threats based on this fake news, has also been arrested. Both of them have surrendered in court," said Swastika, adding: "Many of us, irrespective of our gender, face vicious cyber-attacks which can sometimes snowball into real threats. At the least, this causes a great deal of mental agony and harm to the individuals and their families. I would urge people to muster courage and report such situations to law enforcement."
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