Man detained for threatening to bomb India vs. Pakistan in the 2023 World Cup at Narendra Modi Stadium via email. Officials said on Wednesday that the Ahmedabad crime branch had detained a history sheeter for allegedly sending an email threatening to blow up the Narendra Modi Stadium here on October 14, the day India and Pakistan are supposed to play cricket for the World Cup.
A crime branch release stated that the accused, Karan Mavi, was taken into custody in Rajkot. The mail addressed to BCCI was written in Hindi. It said that on October 14, 2023, there would be an explosion at the Narendra Modi Stadium in the Motera district, and that “everyone will shudder.”
According to the crime branch, Mavi, a native of Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district, was detained under sections 505 (1) B of the Indian Penal Code (public mischief by an act intended to cause fear or alarm among the people) and 506 (2), which deals with criminal intimidation.
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According to the statement, he was previously detained in connection with a 2018 rape case as well as allegations of criminal intimidation and people trafficking filed at the Dhamnod police station in Dhar.
One of the locations for the current World Cup of cricket is the enormous stadium.The crime department added that it was closely monitoring social media in response to emails and posts threatening to blow up the stadium or hold protests there that were being sent out by anonymous users.
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the leader of the outlawed organization Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), was charged with a felony by the Gujarat Police on September 29 for his alleged threat to transform the Cricket global Cup into a “world terror cup.”
The India-Pakistan cricket match is likely to bring a sizable crowd, according to the Ahmedabad police, who had claimed that additional security measures have been put in place for the match.
