New Delhi, 27 July: A man threatened to blow up the office when he entered the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) office at Jhandewalan. The workers present there immediately caught the man and locked him in a room.
The police have taken the accused, Prince Pandey (26), into custody and is being questioned. The accused is a resident of Madhya Pradesh.
Central district DCP Shweta Chauhan said that at 12:41 pm the police had received a call regarding a man threatening to blow up the VHP office above the Jhandewalan temple with a bomb.
The police reached the spot and took Prince Pandey, resident of Bhattawali village in Madhya Pradesh, into custody.
The DCP said that Pandey is a graduate and his father is a driver in a government hospital while mother does domestic work. He has a younger sister who is pursuing M.Sc.
During police interrogation, Prince told that he had come to Delhi with his aunt on July 22. He was staying in Fatehpur Beri area. His uncles work in a farm house in Chhatarpur. He told the police that a family in his village was converted to Christianity.
Nobody was doing anything about it. He has told that he is a supporter of RSS but nothing was being done by RSS, due to which he was angry. At present, the police have taken him into custody. Apart from Delhi Police, the Special Special Branch team is interrogating him.
VHP spokesperson Vinod Bansal said that around 12:15 pm this man had first gone to a different ashram and after threatening people there, he came to the VHP office. Coming here, he threatened that he would blow up all Sangh and VHP buildings. The officials there caught him and handed him to the police.
