Police arrest MP man who sent death threat to Rahul Gandhi, Kamal Nath

Indore, April 27: Madhya Pradesh Police on Thursday arrested a man who allegedly gave a death threat to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Kamal Nath amid the Bharat Jodo Yatra in November last year.

According to a police official, the accused was apprehended under the National Security Act (NSA) in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

The accused has been identified as Dayasingh alias Aishilal Jham, the author of the letter, which was received in a sweetmeat store in the June Indore area and had death threats to kill Gandhi and Nath in the context of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

The threat letter was received when Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra, which began in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, in September of last year, entered Indore on November 27 and continued into the nearby Ujjain district the next day.

Dayasingh was held on a tip-off from the railway station just as he was about to flee by train, informed Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Nimish Agrawal.

"The district administration had issued an order that Jham be jailed under the NSA. It is not clear why he sent this letter. A detailed probe is underway," Agrawal stated.

The death letter said that Gandhi and Nath would be killed and massive bomb blasts would take place in Indore while the Bharat Jodo Yatra was passing through MP's commercial capital.

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