A Kashmiri youth was detained in Bihar capital Patna on Saturday morning ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s day long visit to the state, police said.
The intelligence agencies had on Friday warned of a possible attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi using a human bomb either during his visit to Patna or at the public rally he is scheduled to attend in Muzaffarpur.
“A suspected youth from Jammu and Kashmir was detained in Patna’s S K Puri locality on Saturday morning and police are interrogating him,” a police official said.
Modi will be in Patna to launch the Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayay Rashtriya Gramin Joyti Yojna and inaugurate the new IIT-Patna campus.
The prime minister is also scheduled to attend two other functions in Patna before leaving for Muzaffarpur, around 70 km from Patna, to address an election campaign rally.
A state home department official said, “The government will go for unprecedented security cover during Modi's rally in Muzaffarpur."
Although the SPG controls Modi's security, the Bihar government has directed its senior officers to prepare special security arrangement for the rally, the official said.
It may be recalled that Modi's rally at Gandhi Maidan in Patna was rocked by serial blasts on October 27, 2013. Modi was then the BJP's prime ministerial candidate. At least five people were killed and nearly 100 injured in the blasts.
