Kerala on high alert after threat letter warns of suicide bomb attack on PM Modi
HY News
22 April, 2023 01:42 pm IST
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The police and security agencies have launched a probe into a letter threatening to launch a suicide bomb attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his two-day Kerala visit starting Monday.
The letter, purportedly written in Malayalam by a person in Kochi, was received at the office of BJP state president K Surendran, who in turn, handed it over to the police last week.
The police traced down a person named N K Johny, whose address had figured in the letter, which said Modi would face the fate of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. Johny, a native of Kochi, denied having written the letter but alleged that a person who nursed a grudge against him was likely to be behind the assassination threat.
Meanwhile, a letter from the Additional Director General of Police outlining security drills was leaked to the media. The ADGP's letter also highlighted several other serious threat perceptions, including one from the banned Popular Front of India (PFI). Minister of State for external affairs M Muraleedharan, who hails from Kerala, raised concern over the leak, calling it a serious lapse on the part of the state police.
BJP state chief K. Surendran has maintained that all scheduled functions will take place.
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