Bihar man arrested for threat call to Maha CM

Dumka: Police on Saturday arrested Krishna Kumar Singh from Purnea in Bihar for allegedly making threat calls to Maharastra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray a week ago. Sahibganj SP Anuranjan Kispotta said Mumbai Police had given them the mobile number from which the threat call was made.
Kispotta said, “A team led by Barharwa sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) P K Mishra was sent to Purnea and they arrested Singh on Friday. A team of Mumbai Police has arrived and are interrogating him. The number from which the threat call was made was in regular contact with Singh. We traced the number and found it belonged to a Barharwa-based businessman who had been cheated by Singh.”
Kispotta said Singh — who hails from Baliya in Uttar Pradesh and has houses in Barharwa (Sahibganj) and Purnea — had defrauded the trader of Rs 35,000, pretending to be the Delhi CID crime branch IG. The SP added that Singh had also cheated a few more businessmen and FIRs were lodged against him in Barharwa.
“I am not sure when Singh made the call to the Maharastra CM. Mumbai Police was after him for quite some time before they approached us a week ago,” he said, adding Singh will be taken to Mumbai and produced before a local court.