Pistol, threat letter against Kanhaiya found

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Pistol, threat letter against Kanhaiya found
Kanhaiya Kumar

New Delhi - Police is trying to ascertain identity of the bag's owner and several persons have been questioned.

By PTI

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Published: Sat 16 Apr 2016, 12:00 AM

Last updated: Sat 16 Apr 2016, 1:47 PM

A country-made pistol and a threat letter against Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar, purportedly written by a man who had earlier threatened the student leader over Facebook, were recovered from a bus operating between an ISBT and JNU campus following which Delhi Police is mulling enhancing his security.
The weapon was recovered in a bus operating between Kashmere Gate ISBT and the JNU campus, after the driver spotted an unclaimed bag and raised an alarm.
Police is trying to ascertain identity of the bag's owner and several persons have been questioned, a senior official said.
With the gun, there was also a letter which said that Kanhaiya and Umar Khalid, who were arrested under sedition charge over a controversial event in JNU campus, will be decapitated.


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