Vigil in and around the railway station has been intensified and policemen in plain clothes are being deployed there.
Policemen during Operation Batla House, that took place on 19 September 2008, against IM terrorists, allegedly involved in the serial blasts of September 13, 2008, in Delhi. (File Photo: IANS)
Munne Khan, also known as ‘Mullah’, purportedly the area commander of Indian Mujahideen (IM) has sent a letter to Bareilly railway station superintendent Satyaveer Singh, threatening to ‘blow up the station if ‘kanwarias’ pass through Muslim-dominated areas in the city’.
Vigil in and around the railway station has been intensified and policemen in plain clothes are being deployed there.
Advertisement
In the letter, the area commander has said: “I, area commander of IM, want to inform station superintendent that if Kanwarias pass through the Muslim dominated areas, we will explode the railway station. You better inform the police and the administration.”
Advertisement
Station house officer of the government railway police, Bareilly, Krishna Avtar said, “We are keeping a close eye on each and every person visiting the station.”
Notably, in the past few years, the district had hit national headlines due to a scuffle between two communities over the Kanwar route.
Advertisement
