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A40-year-old man who has been keeping the state police on its toes for past two months by posting bomb threats has been arrested. The accused Shreyas Chandrakant Gandhi allegedly posted as many as 200 letters to police in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra. The Vadodara Crime Branch who arrested the accused also recovered letters, post covers, name register, postal stamps, printer and other materials which were used by the accused to write and post the letters. Gandhi is a resident of Ghadiyali Pol in Mandvi. He was arrested on Friday night from Wadi in Vadodara while he was trying to post one of the hoax letters. Vadodara Police Commissioner E Radhakrishnan said, “Assistant Sub-Inspector Harinath Ramabhai and Head Constable Dilipsinh Parvatsinh were watching the Ghadiyali pol post box, which was identified as the one from where several of the hoax letters had been sent.Around 10 pm, the accused came on a moped and was caught posting letters in the box. During primary investigation, the accused confessed that the letters were addressed to different places in Gujarat and Rajasthan.” According to the police, the accused had posted letters from various post boxes in Vadodara for the past two months. During his arrest, police recovered four letters from him. They were addressed to two branches of Indian Overseas Bank in Ahmedabad, Jalaram temple in Karelibaug, Vadodara and Bank of India branch in Va-dodara.The letters were written in Hindi and English and undersigned as ISIS (Islamic State) and IM (Indian Mujahideen). Gandhi is a commerce post graduate from MSU and works atoffice 839 in the Share market building in Vadodara. The accused used to run a cyber café and used names from the customer register to sign the letters, the police said. “He would even name a few police officials in the letters to amplify the level of panic. The next day, when the newspapers reported the chaos the letters caused, he would proudly show them to his wife and keep the cutting of the articles as keepsakes. He did it for fun,” Radhakrishnan said. The police had identified the areas from where the letters were being sent.“We contacted the postmaster general and then strategically posted our men near the post boxes. We zeroed in on the post box from where the letters were most frequently sent. We then kept a watch on the post box and arrested the accused on Friday night from Ghadiyali pol,” said Radhakrishnan. Now, the police are trying to determine whether Gandhi worked alone or is associated with any terror organization or group. “We booked him for terrorism, giving bomb threats and terrorizing people. We will conduct further investigating on the exact modus operandi of the accused,” said Radhakrishnan. The commissioner also declared cash rewards for the policemen and appreciation letters for the officials involved in detecting the case.