Viral ‘Bal Sant’ Abhinav Arora gets death threat from Bishnoi gang

Abhinav Arora, a 10-year-old boy from Uttar Pradesh's Mathura, famously known as 'Bal Sant Baba' on social media, is the latest to receive a death threat from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, according to his mother.

“We received a call message from Lawrence Bishnoi group today where we were being threatened that Abhinav would be killed. Last night, we got a call that I missed. We received a message from the same number today that they would kill Abhinav...," Abhinav’s mother Jyoti told ANI.

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“Abhinav hasn’t done anything that would attract such threats. We receive calls (where the person says) that we will kill your child, chop off your child…they use abusive language,” claimed the boy’s mother.

Viral video and trolling

The 10-year-old, who describes himself as a devotee of Lord Krishna, recently became the focus of public attention after a video, reportedly taken at a religious event in 2023 in Vrindavan, showed him being reprimanded publicly by Swami Rambhadracharya for not maintaining decorum on the stage.

“Please step down. Maintain decorum,” Swami Rambhadracharya is seen telling Abhinav, after the boy danced on the stage in front of the seer.

“He is a foolish boy. He claims that Lord Krishna studies with him. Will God study with him? I had scolded him in Vrindavan too,” Rambhadracharya had commented later.

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The video was shared by a user on X and it accumulated over one million views.

There were several comments criticising Abhinav, with some saying he was “overacting” and Guruji threw him off the stage.

Others said Abhinav’s father was to be blamed, not the child who is really not mature enough. They said his father was using him to make money and called it “disgusting”.

Abhinav’s family takes legal action

Abhinav’s family has taken legal action after receiving “serious threats”, his lawyer Dr Kislay Pandey told India TV.

“A campaign has been behind tarnishing the image of Abhinav, with such videos making the rounds online,” said the lawyer.

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Pandey claimed that the viral video in which Swami Rambhadracharya is seen criticising Abhinav was edited with extra effects to make it more dramatic.

Social media star

Abhinav Arora’s Instagram account calls him “India’s youngest spiritual orator”.

He has more than 9,00,000 followers on Instagram and has also been honoured by Union minister Nitin Gadkari.

The 'Bal Sant Baba' later said the whole nation has been talking about how Swami Rambhadracharya reprimanded him, but nobody is saying anything about how the guru later called him to his room to bless him.