New Delhi: The Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad arrested a 25-year old man from Mumbai on Saturday who had allegedly made a call to the help desk of Uttar Pradesh Government and threatened to kill Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

According to ATS officials, the accused, Kamran Amin Khan. a resident of Chunabhatti called the social media desk in early hours of Friday, threatening to kill CM Yogi Adityanath in a bomb blast.

Following this, an FIR was registered at Gomti Nagar police station in Lucknow while the UP Special Task Force (STF) started an investigation. The Kalachowki unit of Maharashtra ATS squad had also been conducting the investigation to trace the number.

The mobile number was tracked using dump data and current human intelligence was used to zero in on the location of the accused. The mobile number used for the threat call had been switched off but the dump data revealed the place it had been switched on was in Chunabhatti area of Eastern Mumbai.

According to ATS officials accused Kamran has confessed to the crime and said that the hate posts on social media against Yogi Adityanath provoked him to take such step.

The accused will be produced in court on Sunday. He will then be handed over to the UP STF which will seek his transit remand and take him to Uttar Pradesh for further investigation.

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