New Delhi, Nov 16: Delhi Police have arrested two persons, including son of a retired police officer, for allegedly sending SMS messages about al Qaeda threat to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, which had caused an alarm in the security establishments. Security arrangements for Vajpayee, who was on his three-nation tour when the messages were received by some Delhi Police officers on Wednesday last, had been beefed up in view of the threat, police said today. A case was registered and investigations were launched, which resulted in the arrest of Sunil Nagpal, 38-year-old businessman of Ashok Vihar in north west Delhi, and his computer expert associate Prakash Nehra (35), son of a retired Delhi Police Inspector, they said. The mobile phone instrument and Sim card used to send the SMS have been seized, police said.
Nagpal and Nehra were subjected to intense joint interrogation by police and intelligence agencies during which the former allegedly disclosed that he had enmity with his brother-in-law and wanted to frame him, police said. He, therefore, allegedly hatched the plan of sending the "alarming" SMS messages in consultation with Nehra to "deliberately leave certain clues which would lead the police to his brother-in-law". The two were produced before a court which remanded them to police custody for three days.
Bureau Report