Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police arrested two persons on Wednesday, both of Hindu faith, who had made threats to bomb Ayodhya's Ram temple on social media by posing Muslim identities.
The duo used fake email addresses with Muslim names to send threatening posts.
According to the police statement, a team of SIT arrested Tahar Singh and Omprakash Mishra from the Vibhuti Khand area of Gomti Nagar in Lucknow.
The statement said that the two had threatened Adityanath, STF chief Amitabh Yash and Ayodhya’s Ram temple in a post on ‘X’ in November using the handle ‘@iDevendraOffice’.
The investigation initially revealed that email IDs ‘alamansarikhan608@gmail.com’ and ‘zubairkhanisi199@gmail.com’ were used to send the threat posts.
It was found that Tahar Singh created the email accounts and Omprakash Mishra sent the threat messages.
Singh and Mishra are both residents of Gonda and work in a paramedical institute, the statement said.