Faisal Wani apologised and deleted the clip after outrage on social media.
A Kashmiri Youtuber was arrested by the police in Srinagar on Saturday for creating a video that showed him beheading an effigy of suspended Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nupur Sharma, PTI reported. Faisal Wani was arrested as his video caused fear and alarm among the citizens, the police said. An first information report was filed at the Safa Kadal police station in Srinagar. He was arrested under Sections 505 (intending to cause harm) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code. In the video, Wani had shown the BJP leader’s beheading accompanied by music from a Turkish serial called the Resurrection, The Hindu reported.
