India, April 3 -- The Esplanade metropolitan magistrate court has sentenced a 29-year-old Sion resident to two years rigorous imprisonment for threatening to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in 2023.

"Considering the strain on the government machinery as well as the security apparatus of the very prominent persons in respect of whom the threats were made due to such rumours, it would not be appropriate to sympathy with the accused", the court observed on Monday.

As per the prosecution, the control room of the Mumbai Police received a phone call on November 20, 2023, at around 7.14pm. The caller, Kamran Khan, claimed that Dawood Ibrahim's gang had offered him Rs.5 crore to execute ...