Two people were arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police for sending bomb threats to chief minister Yogi Adityanath and the authorities at the Ayodhya Ram Mandir.

The accused, Tahar Singh and Om Prakash Mishra, hailing from Gonda district were arrested on December 3.

According to reports, Tahar Singh and Mishra sent death threats to Yogi and soon-to-be-inaugurated Ram Mandir, special task force additional director general of police (ADG) Amitabh Yash, and a social activist Devendra Tiwari under the pseudonym name ‘Zubair Khan’ through email IDs ‘alamansarikhan608@gmail.com’ and ‘zubairkhanisi199@gmail.com’.