Bihar man arrested for trying to write to Barack Obama
The police in Bhagalpur had also been contacted to get the details about Raza
Gaya: Ahead of the three-day visit to India by the US President, police today took a 49-year-old man into custody from a cyber cafe in temple town of Bodh Gaya for allegedly trying to send an e-mail to Barack Obama seeking 130 crore dollars as fund for national relief.
According to the police he was picked after the owner of Cyber café alerted them. He has been placed under custody and police is interrogating him.
“We have picked up a man named Inam Raza from the cyber café. We found out that he had written a tow page letter to the US president seeking 130 crore dollars for the national relief fund”. City superintendent of Police Rakesh Kumar said.
"He had typed in Urdu two pages of the purported letter to Obama. In it, he had demanded 130 crore dollars from the US President for national relief fund," the Superintendent of Police said.The man has been identified as Inam Raza (49), a resident of Bellaur Chak village in Bhagalpur district, seems to be mentally disturbed.
Some prescriptions of Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, had been found from him, he said.
The Superintendent of Police said that seeing the sensitiveness of the matter the state Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and the Police Headquarters had been informed about the matter.
The police in Bhagalpur had also been contacted to get the details about Raza.