A college lecturer was arrested here last night on the charge of sending threatening e-mails to Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and the state Chief Secretary.

He was, however, released on bail today by a court at Mandi Dabwali here.

Navdeep, posted as a lecturer in the Electronics Department in Devi Lal Memorial Engineering college Panniwala Mota in the district, was produced by the police in the court at Mandi Dabwali for remand by the police which had apprehended him last night from Hisar.

Navdeep and his wife Kavita, an employee in the state Agriculture Department and posted in Hisar, are among the three persons accused of sending two threatening mails to the Haryana Chief minister and Chief Secretary Urvashi Gulati in the name the College Principal D S Mor on March 13 and April 9 after making a fake e-mail ID in the name of Mor.

The other accused in the case Satish who owns a Computer centre in Hisar.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Dabwali, Babu Lal, who led a police party, apprehended the lecturer from Hisar last night.

Babu Lal said Navdeep was the main accused who had sent the threatening mails from Satish?s computer after making fictitious e-mail ID in the name of the principal.

He said the police was probing the role of the two other accused in the crime.