Noida: Uttar Pradesh police on Friday arrested a 17-year-old boy who had threatened to kill Prime Minister Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The youth who originally hails from Bihar is currently studying in a private school at Lucknow. He had sent an email to a private TV channel in Noida threatening to eliminate both the PM and UP CM.
According to Noida police, the teen had earlier committed same mischief in Bihar where he had sent threatening email about senior leaders of the state. While he remained untraced by Bihar police, the Noida police arrested him with in 48 hours of sending email here.
Teenager sent to juvenile jail
"An FIR was lodged in connection with the case of April 5 at Sector 20 police station here after which the matter was investigated, technical teams also roped in to trace the sender of the email, which contained the threat message," Verma said.
"On the basis of the investigation, the email sender was traced and found in Lucknow's Chinhat area. The sender turned out to be a schoolboy, who has just completed his Class 11 and will be beginning Class 12 in this session," the police officer told PTI.
On Friday afternoon the Noida police produced the boy in the court which sent him in the juvenile jail.
The police had lodged an FIR against "unknown" person after a media house representative approached them with a complaint, stating they have received an email threatening to assassinate the prime minister and the Uttar Pradesh chief minister.
The FIR was lodged under the Indian Penal Code sections 153A (1b) (act prejudicial to maintenance of harmony, or likely to disturb public tranquillity), 505 (1b) (act likely to cause, fear or alarm to the public, or to any section of the public whereby any person may be induced to commit an offence against the state or against the public tranquillity), 506 (criminal intimidation), 507 (criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication), police said.
The police also invoked provisions of the Information Technology Act in the case.
(with agency inputs)
