Hazaribagh: Two persons were
on Saturday arrested for allegedly sending threat mails to Congress
leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Union Home Minister P
Chidambaram, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal and Delhi Police
Commissioner B K Gupta on December 25, the police said.
"We have arrested and registered FIR under the
Information and Technology Act against owner of Om Cyber Caf?
Vikrant Kumar and Chotelal Kumar, both from Hazaribagh,"
Additional Superintendent of Police Sudarshan Prasad Mandal
told a news conference here.
On January 9, the police had detained the two along
with another person after Delhi police alerted their
counterparts in Hazaribagh about the threat e-mails.
"The messages were sent on December 25 at 9.16 PM on
Secret my liking at the rate of rediffmail.com server
threatening to kill Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, B K Gupta, P
Chidambaram, Kapil Sibal and some journalists, including
(those working) in the Hindustan,".
Stating that their networking system was taken to
Ranchi for investigation, he said Vikrant Kumar stays near
Jhinjhiria while Chotelal Kumar lives near Babutola locality
of Ichak Police station in Hazaribagh town.
PTI
First Published: Saturday, January 14, 2012, 23:03