A youth who threatened to kill Advani,Modi arrested in Ahmedabad

Mohammed Arif Mohammed Iqbal Qureishi(23), who allegedly issued death threats to Chief Minister Narendra Modi and BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani over the phone has been arrested in Ahmedabad.

On Wednesday evening, accused was produced before urgent metropolitan magistrate G C Gamit, who ordered five days remand.

A Jamalpur area resident in Ahmedabad, Arif had allegedly called up the police control room number on April 4 to claim that Hafiz Arif on orders from Lashakar e Taiyaba founder Maulana Masood Azhar and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim planned to kill the two BJP leaders during election campaigning. The call was made from IDEA number 9624485353 belonging to a resident of Shahpur health staff quarters, Deval Vaghela. When Crime Branch Inspector Tarun Barot reached Devabhai Vaghela, he told that his son Manoj, who used the SIM, lost it near the Reliance footprint shop on Relief Road on April 2 as the SIM dropped out of his pocket when he was on his way for buying a pair of shoes.

The Crime Branch kept a watch in the area and caught Arif making a call from outside the same shop on Tuesday. They seized the SIM, a Nokia cellphone and two telephone diaries from him. Arif confessed he had found the SIM and made the call to the control room. It was further revealed that Arif had gone to Kerala, Godhra, Pune, for Tabligi Jamat’s community work.