Ashwini Kumar, who posed as Pakistani terrorist, arrested
Ashwini Kumar, a Patna man who was residing in Noida, has been arrested for threatening to blow up Mumbai during Ganesh Festival
[Image posted on X by Mumbai Police]
Mumbai: Ashwini Kumar, a Patna man who was residing in Noida, has been arrested for threatening to blow up Mumbai during Ganesh Festival.
Kumar has been arrested after a joint operation by Mumbai and Noida Police.
Confirming the arrest of Ashwini Kumar, the Mumbai Police said Kumar was arrested withing 24 hours of threatening to bomb Mumbai using RDX.
“The Mumbai Crime Branch has arrested a man from Noida, Uttar Pradesh, for allegedly issuing a bomb threat to the city”, it said in a post on social media platform X.
The Police said it has recovered the mobile phone and SIM card used to send the threat message.
“Terror Attack Threat”
The arrest of Ashwini Kumar came a day after the Mumbai Traffic WhatsApp Helpline received a bomb threat message.
In the message, Ashwini Kumar had posed as a Pakistani terrorist from ‘Lashkar-e-Jihadi’. Naming himself Firoz, he said that 14 Pakistani terrorists have entered India.
About 400 kg of RDX will be used for the blast, which can "kill 1 crore people", Ashwini Kumar had said in the threat message.
As per the FIR, Ashwini Kumar had some sort of dispute with Firoz, his Musli friend. Firoz had lodged a complaint against Kumar following which he was arrested.
“Ashwini spent three months in jail after Firoz registered a case against him in the Phulwari Sharif police station in Bihar's Patna. Angered by the action, he posed as Firoz and sent bomb threats to Mumbai to implicate him,” a police statement said.
Incidentally, Ashwini Kumar's bomb threat message surfaced about a week after threats of "terrorist attack" led to the changes in Rahul Gandhi's “Vote Adhikar Yatra” in Bihar.
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