New Delhi: Provocative videos have leaked from the Instagram account owned by the man who shot at the protesting crowd near Jamia Millia University during the nationwide agitation against citizenship law. After the videos triggered a controversy, the man, who was on bail at the moment, made his account private, NDTV reported.
One of the videos, leaked from the account named "Rambhakt Gopal", featured a gun's barrel pointing out of a car window at children, who ran away scared. The video, with Gau Raksha Dal, Mewat road, Haryana" are written in Hindi over it, the car stops at places, and only moves after children shut their doors.
Rambhakt Gopal Sharma uploaded a video on his Instagram where people in car TERRORISING young girls & kids by showing guns. The video caption reads 'Gau Raksha Dal, Mewat road, Haryana'.
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) April 24, 2022
Hello @DGPHaryana @police_haryana, #ArrestRamBhaktGopalpic.twitter.com/IhRTm3dWBm
Another video features armed men dragging an into an SUV. It was captioned "Taking away the cow smuggler".
Jamia shooter out on bail Rambhakt Gopal uploaded this video on his instagram with caption "Taking away the cow smuggler". Men with pistols can be seen taking away a man. They have full freedom to violate law everyday and still remain free.
— Kaushik Raj (@kaushikrj6) April 24, 2022
Insta link: https://t.co/2ydAyjWY6Z pic.twitter.com/wWHImXQbFF
Both received many supportive comments and reactions.
After severe flak from social media, he responded through Twitter with more contentious statements.
@zoo_bear @kaushikrj6 talk about them too , these scared muslims threaten me every day , i got thousands of threats to kill or my sister and my cow mother. They threaten to kill us if we go to Mewat. Mewat is in India and we will not allow cow smuggling here, always remember this pic.twitter.com/u4irYMLNi6
— Rambhakt_Gopal_ (@Rambhaktgopal) April 24, 2022
The man has 13,000 followers on Instagram and used to call himself Nathuram Godse 2.0. He is notorious for his many controversial posts on social media before. Many videos and photos were his ventures as a cow vigilante. During the Jami incident, he has posted slogans like "Shaheen Bagh, game over" and "I am giving Azadi (freedom)" with pictures of weapons. He had gone Facebook live moments ahead of his attack on Jamia students.
However, he was arrested for hate speech in 'Hindu mahapanchayats' in Haryana and was released on bail.