19-year-old from Nanded detained for threatening to `blast Mumbai'
Mumbai (PTI): A 19-year-old "school student" was apprehended by Mumbai police from Nanded in central Maharashtra on Tuesday after a threat to "blast Mumbai" was posted on Twitter by an unidentified person.
A tweet stating "I am going to blast Mumbai very soon" was posted by tagging Mumbai police on Monday.
The location of the user was traced to Nanded city, around 625 km away from Mumbai, an official said.
The suspect, a 19-year-old man, was a "school student", a late-night police statement said, adding that the Mumbai police's crime branch detained him with the help of Nanded unit of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and he was being taken to Mumbai.
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RS Chairman accepts merger of 7 AAP MPs with BJP
New Delhi (PTI): Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan on Monday officially accepted the merger of seven Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MPs with the BJP, reducing the strength of Arvind Kejriwal's party in the Upper House to three.
After this transition, the BJP's strength in the Upper House has increased to 113.
Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Sandeep Pathak, Vikramjit Sahney, Swati Maliwal, and Rajinder Gupta are the seven MPs who have merged.
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The Rajya Sabha website now shows that the seven MPs are part of the BJP list of members.
The seven MPs had on Friday petitioned the Rajya Sabha Chairman to be treated as BJP MPs after the merger and the same has been accepted, sources said.
The AAP had on Sunday moved a petition before the RS Chairman seeking the termination of the membership of the seven MPs, who had switched sides.
Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh said he has submitted a petition to Chairman Radhakrishnan seeking the disqualification of the seven party MPs in the Upper House, who recently quit the AAP and announced their merger with the BJP.
On Friday last, the AAP suffered a jolt when the seven Rajya Sabha MPs quit and announced merger with the BJP, alleging that the Kejriwal-led party had strayed from its principles, values and core morals.
