Professor held for bomb threat to coaching centre

A 31-year-old professor of Applied Mathematics was arrested for allegedly threatening to blow up a coaching institute in northwest Delhi’s Wazirpur Industrial Area, police said.  

The accused, Bachchu Jha, a resident of Madhubani in Bihar, taught Applied Mathematics in colleges of Haryana and Bihar. He was apprehended from Nashik in Maharashtra within 18 hours of making the extortion call.