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Armaan Singh Sarai Locked Up For 3 Days After Bully Accuses Him Of Bomb Threat A 12-year-old Indian boy was locked up for 3 days after a bully at his school accused him of making a bomb to blow up the campus according to International Business Times reports: A Sikh 12-year-old spent about three days in a juvenile detention center this week after police arrested him at school in what some are comparing to the case of “clock kid” Ahmed Mohamed. Armaan Singh Sarai, a 7th-grader in Arlington, Texas, was accused of making a terrorist threat, though his family and the police were still arguing over on the circumstances days later, the Dallas Morning News reported. The Arlington Independent School District alerted the local police department Dec. 11 after Armaan allegedly threatened to blow up his junior high school using a bomb in his backpack. Officers searched his bag but found no explosives, the Arlington Voice reported. Though Armaan said he was just kidding, the police arrested him. “Unfortunately, when things like this occur, we do take this very seriously,” Lt. Christopher Cook told the local NBC affiliate. “Whether it’s written or spoken, when it crosses the line and causes this type of alarm, this panic in the community, that’s when it really rises into this terroristic threat statute that’s on the books.” Armaan went to juvenile detention. The school district said it notified his parents where he was, but the family said they panicked when he went missing. That wasn’t the only part of the story they were fighting over. In a viral Facebook post Tuesday, Armaan’s cousin Ginee Haer wrote that “a bully in his class thought it would be funny to accuse him of having a bomb” and “without any questioning, interrogation or notification to his parents, called the police.” Discuss. Facebook

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SMH: Cops Lock Up 12-Year-Old Indian Boy For 3 Days After Racist Bullies Accuse Him Of Having A Bomb