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Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari gets suicide bomb threat email mentioning Al Qaeda; Kolkata man arrested
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A threatening email was received by Bhowanipore police station claiming a suicide attack would be carried out on West Bengal chief minister with the help of Al Qaeda. The email was sent using a woman's identity and was traced to a 27-year-old man, Hasnain Iqbal, a resident of Kolkata's Garden Reach area. Iqbal was arrested following a joint probe by the cyber cell and the Special Task Force of Kolkata Police. He admitted to sending the email during questioning.