© hindustantimes.comMan Sends Mail Threatening To Blow Up Bihar Chief Minister's Office
The Patna Police have arrested a man from Kolkata for threatening to blow up Bihar Chief MinisterBihar Chief MinisterBihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's office here, officials said. The man, identified as Mohammad Zahid (51) and a native of Bhagwanpur block in Bihar's Begusarai district, was arrested Monday night.
The accused had sent an email on July 16 under the name Al-Qaeda.
The SHO of the Secretariat police station registered an FIR against unknown persons on August 2.
During the investigation, Zahid's whereabouts were traced to the Bowbazar area in Kolkata, where he ran a paan shop on 40 BB Ganguly Street. Zahid confessed to sending the email to frame three individuals, and the police seized the mobile phone used to send the email.
“We have arrested an accused who had sent an email threatening to explode the Chief Minister's office of Bihar. He mentioned three mobile numbers in the email. Upon investigation, we found that the individuals associated with these numbers were innocent and had no connection to the email. The main accused hatched the conspiracy to frame them,” said Sushil Kumar, SDPO of Sadar Patna.