Two members of a criminal gang operating in India and Nepal have been arrested for allegedly making threat calls to blow up a school in southern Nepal's Rautahat district if they were not paid 50 lakh rupees.
Munna Kumar Yadav, 27, and Awadh Lal Mahato, 39, had threated to kill Ravishankar Yadav, the principal of Nemdhari Basudev Higher Secondary School in the district, and blow up the school if their demand was not met, police said.
The duo made the threat calls and sent texts using different SIM cards and claimed that they were members of a gang operating in Nepal and India, they said.
The principal received the first threat call on August 21 for five million Nepalese rupees (Rs 31 lakh). He was asked not to discuss the episode with anyone, or he would be killed.
Police said the suspects were arrested on August 30 after a thorough investigation. Later, they were presented before the Rautahat District Court and remanded into custody.
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