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Bengaluru: On Tuesday, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah along with many other cabinet ministers received a threat e-mail. The email stated the explosion would rock the city at 2.48 pm on Saturday.
The threat was specifically sent to prominent personalities including Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar and state Home Minister G Parameshwara.The email was sent by a person named Shahid Khan using the email address Shahidkhan10786@protonmail.com.
The mail read,”What are your thoughts on the movie trailer? If you don’t provide us with 2.5 million dollars, we will cause large explosions on buses, trains, temples, hotels and public areas throughout Karnataka.”
It also stated,”We want to show you one more trailer. We are going to explode the next one in the Ambari Utsav bus. After the Ambari Utsav bus blast, we will raise our demands on social media. And will upload screenshots of the mail sent to you on social media. We will tweet information about the next explosion.”
The sender also warned of planting bombs during public events. Meanwhile, the Bengaluru City Crime Branch police have registered the case. Earlier, the Karnataka Police arrested one person named Mohammed Rasool Kaddare for posting a video on social media in which he threatened to kill PM Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
