Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's office receives bomb threat
PTC News Desk: Bihar Police have registered a case after the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Office (CMO) in Patna received an email threatening to blow up the building, officials said on Sunday.
On July 16, the CMO got an email from an unidentified account that claimed to be affiliated with Al-Qaeda. The email's sender threatened that the CMO premises would be "blown up with a bomb," claiming that even Bihar's special police could not stop it.
The threatening email led the police and the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) to conduct an investigation. An FIR was registered at Sachiwalaya police station based on Station House Officer Sanjeev Kumar's statement on August 2.
According to police, a case has been filed against unnamed persons under Sections 351 (4) and (3) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, as well as Section 66 (F) of the IT Act.
We are further investigating, they added.
- ANI