The Surpur Police on Monday arrested a 40-year-old man on the charge of issuing a threat to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Javed Inamdar told The Hindu that Mohammad Rasool Kaddare, a native of Rangampet in Surpur and working in Hyderabad of Telangana, posted a video on social media in which he is saying that he will, if the Congress were to come to power at the Centre, carry out his threat.
A case was registered under Section 505(1)(B) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 25 of the Arms Act, he added.