Mumbai police have arrested a 24-year-old woman for allegedly threatening to kill Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on November 3.

The woman, Fatima Khan, has completed a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology and lives in the Ulhasnagar area of ​​Maharashtra’s Thane district with her family. Her father is in the lumber business, police said.

The woman is mentally unstable, police said.

On November 3, the WhatsApp number of the Mumbai traffic police received a message from an unknown number threatening that if Adityanath did not resign as CM within 10 days, then he would be killed like NCP leader Baba Siddique.

During the investigation, the police discovered that Khan had sent the message.

The Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in a joint operation with the Ulhasnagar police tracked down the woman and detained her, an official said. Further investigations are being carried out in this case.

Police are on high alert as Adityanath is likely to come to Maharashtra to campaign for the November 20 state assembly polls, officials said.

Former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique was shot dead in Mumbai’s Bandra area on October 12.

Baba Siddique, former Maharashtra minister and senior leader of Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), was killed after being shot by three people in Bandra East, Mumbai.

The 66-year-old politician was shot in the chest after which he was rushed to the Lilavati Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. Siddique received a death threat 15 days ago and was placed under ‘Y’ security category.