The government minister paid a watch to Dharchula town of Pithoragarh district inwards Uttarakhand on Mon to inaugurate a mega medical army camp organised past times the Army on the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday. His birthday is beingness celebrated every bit 'Seva Diwas'.
The constabulary were alerted to the message at 9.30pm on Sunday. It is beingness probed whether the couplet had whatever criminal background or possessed whatever arms in addition to ammunition.
The 2 accept been booked nether Section 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC in addition to Section 66 of the Information Technology (IT) Act, Pithoragarh SP Ramchandra Rajguru said. "We were alerted to the chat (about killing the defense strength minister) on a WhatsApp grouping at 9.30 pm on Sunday. We identified 2 persons betwixt whom the chat was taking house in addition to arrested them Mon morn ahead of the defense strength minister's arrival here," he said.
The controversial message sent past times i of the arrested couplet reads as, "Main shoot karunga Sitharaman ko, kal uska akhiri din hoga. ('I volition shoot Sitharaman, tomorrow volition live on her terminal day')", constabulary said.
The credentials of the admin of the WhatsApp grouping are too beingness looked into, the SP said. While the affair is even then nether investigation, Rajguru said that it appeared, prima facie, that the couplet was boozer piece they were chatting.
