Mumbai Police arrest 24-year-old woman for sending threatening message to kill Yogi Adityanath

Mumbai Police have arrested a 24-year-old woman for allegedly issuing a death threat to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on November 3.

The woman, Fatima Khan, has a bachelor’s degree in information technology and lives with her family in the Ulhasnagar area of ​​neighboring Thane district in Maharashtra. Her father is involved in the timber business, police said.

According to police, the woman is mentally unstable.

On November 3, the Mumbai Traffic Police WhatsApp number received a message from an unknown number threatening that if Adityanath did not resign from the CM’s post within ten days, he would be killed like NCP leader Baba Siddique .

During the investigation, police discovered that Khan had sent the message.

The Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), in a combined operation with Ulhasnagar police, traced and arrested the woman, an official said. Further investigation is underway into the case.

Police are on high alert as Adityanath is likely to come to Maharashtra to campaign for the November 20 elections, officials said.

Former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique was shot dead in Mumbai’s Bandra area on October 12.

Baba Siddique, a former Maharashtra minister and senior leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by Ajit Pawar, was killed after being shot by three persons in Bandra East, Mumbai.

The 66-year-old politician was shot in the chest after which he was rushed to Lilavati Hospital where he succumbed to the injuries. Siddique had received a death threat fifteen days ago and was placed under ‘Y’ category security.