Police arrest youth, who had threatened to blow up UP assembly

Police arrest youth, who had threatened to blow up UP assembly

Police arrested a youth, who had threatened to blow up the state assembly, from Uttar Pradesh's Deoria district, about 325 kilometres from here.   Police sources said that the youth, identified as Farhan, was arrested from Rampur Karkhana area in the district on Thursday.   Farhan had called the cops and threatened that he would blow up the state assembly on August 15.   Sources said that the anti-terrorist squad sleuths had reached Deoria to question Farhan. Police officials said that it was not clear if the threat had any connection with discovery of plastic explosive in the assembly.

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