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Man carrying knife tries to enter Kerala House
Threat to ‘finish off’ Kerala CM, who was present in the building.
New Delhi: The Delhi police detained a mentally unsound man, on Saturday, after he tried to forcibly enter the Kerala House here at Jantar Mantar. The incident was reported at around 10 am when the Kerala chief minister, Pinarayi Vijayan, was heading for the CPM politburo meeting.
“The incident took place at around 10 am. Following this, the security staff informed the police. The man, identified as 46-year-old Vimal Raj, is a native of Kerala’s Karipuzha,” DCP Madhur Verma said.
The security personnel immediately overpowered him and whisked him out of the premises. The man entered the premises carrying a knife and some papers and threatened to “finish off” the Kerala CM.
“The medical documents he was carrying suggested that he is 80 per cent mentally unsound. He is now being sent to the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IBHAS) in Shahdara as per law,” he added.
According to sources, the suspect had tried to commit suicide in front of CM Vijayan.
There have been death threats to the CM’s life earlier. Last year, a Sangh Parivar leader had declared a bounty of Rs 1 crore on Mr Vijayan’s head.
This is not the first time that the Kerala CM has faced death threats. In March, the RSS leader from Ujjain, Kundan Chandravat, had declared a bounty of Rs 1 crore on the CM’s head in his home district of Kannur. Mr Chandravat had vowed to sell off his entire property to collect the reward money. Similarly in June, a Dubai-based Indian national and RSS supporter had threatened to kill the CM. Earlier on Saturday, a man tried to barge inside former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah’s house at Bhatindi in Jammu. The man was gunned down by CRPF security guards.
