Email claims terror groups ready with plot to assassinate PM Modi: '20 Kg RDX, sleeper cells across the country'

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) swng into action after it received a threatening email to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In the email, the sender claimed that he has 20 kg of RDX and can kill thousands of people.

In the mail, the sender further mentions that he is "in touch with people who can do this job and will create major tragedy for this country. I have activated sleeper cells across the country on February 28."

This is not the first time the probe agency has received threatening mail to kill PM Modi. In 2018, a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Modi in a "Rajiv Gandhi-type" style was revealed in a letter to the Pune Police.

For the unversed, former PM Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in Sriperumbedur, Tamil Nadu, on May 21, 1991, by a suicide bomber from Sri Lanka during campaigning.