Bhagalpur, May 30 (UNI) 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.