Bengaluru: Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah and several cabinet ministers on Tuesday received a threat mail. According to reports, the email was sent by a person named Shahid Khan, who has claimed that an explosion will rock Bengaluru at 2:48 pm on Saturday.
"What are your thoughts on the movie trailer? If you don't provide us with 2.5 million dollars, we will cause large explosions on buses, trains, temples, hotels and public areas throughout Karnataka," the mail read.
"We want to show you one more trailer. We are going to explode the next one in the Ambari Utsav bus. After the Ambari Utsav bus blast, we will raise our demands on social media. And will upload screenshots of the mail sent to you on social media. We will tweet information about the next explosion," it stated.
The email has threatened that the explosion will take place at busy places like restaurants, temples, buses or trains, targeting CM Siddaramaiah, deputy CM DK Shivakumar, state home minister and the Bengaluru top cop, the report added.
According to the report, the email demanded a ransom of $2.5 million dollars, or roughly £2 million to refrain from bombing the city. A case has been registered and investigation is underway.
On the bomb threat mail, Shivakumar said: “We don’t know whether it is bogus, fraud, true, false or blackmailer. We have sent it to our police officers. They are on the job.”
