The local police arrested a youth, Samir Ranjan, from Maharshi village under the Sultanganj police station area for threatening to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Senior Police Superintendent Hridaykant said here on Friday that acting on the death threat message to kill Narendra Modi sent to the Prime Minister’s office through WhatsApp, the intelligence officers informed him and had asked him to investigate the matter.
He said a special team headed by Deputy police superintendent Chandrabhushan Kumar was constituted and entrusted with the responsibility of the investigation. The technical team found that the mobile phone number by which the death threat WhatsApp was sent to the Prime Minister’s Office belonged to an elderly person, namely Mantu Chaudhary, who was immediately detained and interrogated.
The SSP said that following the information shared by Mantu Chaudhary, Sameer Ranjan was arrested for sending a threatening message to the Prime Minister.
He said that Mantu Chaudhari has been released from detention. Meanwhile, the National Security Agency and intelligence officers were interrogating Sameer Ranjan in Sultanganj.
As it is Maqsood Ansari, who had threatened to bomb the temple of Lord Shri Ram in Ayodhya in September 2024, was arrested by the Ayodhya police team with the help of Bhagalpur police from his house in Masjid Gali in Barari area of the district. Four mobile phones were recovered from him on the spot. After getting details of these mobile phones, the possibility of Maqsood Ansari’s contact with the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist organization was expressed.
Under the prevailing situation and amid the ongoing dispute between India and Pakistan over terrorists, the intelligence agencies and the district administration were alert after receiving WhatsApp messages threatening to kill the Prime Minister, who was on a two-day ( May 29 and 30) visit to Bihar.
