Pak-return Jitendra Arjunwar detained for threatning Madhya Pradesh CM on twitter

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh cyber cell sleuths on Thursday detained the Pakistan-returned Jitendra Arjunwar for threatening chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on social media.
He allegdly had made five tweets from his account between August 2 to 9, said sources. Cyber cell sleuths zeroed in on him tracking his cell number.
"Arjunwar had made five tweets from his account. He is being interrogated," Bhopal cyber cell SP Sudeep Goyenka told TOI.
He was detained along with his brother Bharat Arjunwar from his house in Bhargat village of Seoni district.
Officials said, of five tweets posted from his handle and one was tagged to the official handle of chief minister giving a direct threat.
“We are trying to ascertain motive behind this tweet,” said the officer.
Jitendra Arjunwar was repatriated to India almost six years after his arrest by Pakistan rangers via the Wagah border following a sustained campaign by activists and journalists on both sides of the border.
Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid, one of the most respected names of Pakistani judiciary, and former chief justice of Sindh High Court had gone to Karachi airport to see off Jitendra. Zahid’s organisation, Legal Aid Society, was instrumental in getting Jitendra — a patient of sickle cell anaemia — out of Karachi jail and send him back to India.
The 21-year-old from MP’s Seoni was flown to Lahore from where he was taken to Wagah border, accompanied by Altaf, a lawyer from Legal Aid Society. After stepping into home soil, he was taken by ambulance to Amritsar from where he was put on a flight to Delhi.
Seoni police had pooled Rs 10,000 for Bharat to help him reach Delhi. Pakistani singer and rights activist Shehzad Roy too had played an active role in securing his release and it was Pakistani prison authorities’ initiative that has kept him alive.
Jitendra was arrested and jailed for trespass after he crossed the international border in Munabao, Rajasthan, and entered Khokhrapar area of Pakistan.
Arjunwar’s lost years
TOI tracked down Arjunwar’s lost years after he ran away from his house in Seoni’s Barghat village for the first time in 2002. He fled to Mumbai, where he was part of the street children programme of ‘The Bombay Young Men’s Christian Association’ (YMCA) till 2012. The postal address on his resume was — Lions Club of Juhu Beach centre, Santacruz West, Mumbai.
TOI spoke to a YMCA project official, Ajay Gupta, who recounted his heart-wrenching story.
The intra-muscular self-injections used by Arjunwar for his illness were mistaken for drug abuse by MP police, who dubbed him a drug addict. His family in Seoni had informed cops after they spotted Arjunwar pinching his skin and “injecting some drugs”. They were unaware of his illness.
He was being treated at King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, with Child Line, YMCA and Lions Club footing the expenses. In 2012, Arjunwar told Gupta that he has to mobilise Rs 9 lakh to undergo bone-marrow surgery or he won’t survive. KEM hospital has his complete medical history. Gupta was the one who used to take him to hospital for blood transfusion. Arjunwar was not an aimless lad. He worked as a driver.
By then, the search for his on his family’s missing person’s complaint had gone nowhere. Police shut the case in 2009. Arjunwar returned home in 2012, only to leave again and surface in Pakistan a year later. According to his family, Arjunwar never revealed where he lived after running away. TOI has learnt that three months before being caught in Pakistan, Arjunwar had uploaded his resume from Mumbai on an international portal.
Then, he wandered into Pakistan and made it undetected for 35km, sending both Pakistan Rangers and BSF into a tizzy. BSF officers in Barmer insisted Arjunwar had not sneaked into Pakistan from their area. How he got past border security is a mystery.
‘#Helpjitendra’ campaign
Buoyed by the success of his two initiatives in 2017, a 33-year-old Bhopal-based social worker, Syed Abid Hussain, initiated a campaign to rescue Arjunwar. He started a ‘#Helpjitendra’ campaign on Twitter, which worked like a miracle. “I am extremely happy that Jitendra Arjunwar has returned. Thankful to journalists and activists in both countries,” Hussain told TOI. He is now gearing up to rescue a Rajasthan boy stuck across the border.
TOI has been tracking Pakistan’s investigations into Arjunwar and trials in Umerkot district of Sindh province where he was chargesheeted under Section 14 of Foreigners Act.