Roorkee. A letter has arrived at Roorkee railway station in Uttarakhand in the name of terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed. In this letter, on May 21, many railway stations and religious places in UP and Uttarakhand have been threatened. After receiving the letter, RPF and GRP have increased security everywhere. The checking campaign is being conducted in collaboration with the local police. The sender of the letter has described himself as the area commander of Jaish, Salim Ansari. He has threatened to blow up Moradabad, Bareilly, Haridwar, Roorkee, Rishikesh, Kathgodam and many more stations. A letter has come in the name of Roorkee railway station superintendent LK Verma. He has sent its copy to the DRM of Moradabad.
In the letter, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami has also been threatened with a bomb. The letter arrived on Sunday. Police is probing from where the letter was sent. Even before this, several letters have been received threatening to blow up stations with bombs. According to the Moradabad division of the railway, a copy of the letter received by the Superintendent of Roorkee station has been received. After this the security system has been alerted. Police and security agencies are trying to reach the sender of the letter.
We have received the letter, it has come to the notice that in the past also some organizations have threatened the railway station and some other institutions. The matter is being investigated: Additional Superintendent of Police GRP Aruna Bharti, Haridwar (09.05) on the letter related to the bomb threat pic.twitter.com/E2mDMrrDld
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Before the assembly elections of 5 states this year, in February, the Gorakhnath temple and UP CM Yogi Adityanath were threatened with bombs. The police was alerted as soon as the tweet surfaced from a Twitter handle named Lady Don. In the tweet, there was a threat of explosion in the UP assembly and Meerut as well. Three tweets were made about this on 4 February. Earlier it was written in the tweet that bombs have been planted in UP Vidhan Sabha Lucknow, railway station and bus stand and will be exploded everywhere.