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Brothers arrested for threat call to UP Minister Azam Khan

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Press Trust of India Sambhal
Two brothers have been arrested for threatening to kill senior cabinet minister Mohd Azam Khan in a bomb blast around a year ago, police said here today.

The urban development minister had received a call on his mobile phone on May 24 last year, threatening to blow him up in a bomb blast, station house officer B P Waliyan said.

The crime branch lodged an FIR against Mohd Abid and Mohd Yameen on July 5 this year, he added.

The brothers were arrested yesterday and produced before the court from where they were sent to jail.

Khan, during the inaugural function of a medical college on May 26 last year, himself admitted that he had received the threat call.
 

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First Published: Aug 07 2013 | 11:07 AM IST

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