Youth held for issuing bomb threat to Stalin’s residence

A drunk man, frustrated aft his ailment was ignored by the police, called the metropolis constabulary power country connected Sunday evening and made a mendacious assertion that helium had planted bombs astatine Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s residence earlier disconnecting the call.

Police sources said the caller, who identified himself arsenic Vinoth, abruptly disconnected the telephone aft issuing the threat. On receipt of information, the Teynampet constabulary personnel, on with the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) and sniffer dogs, conducted an intensive hunt astatine the Chief Minister’s residence connected Chitharanjan Road, aft which it was confirmed to beryllium a hoax threat.

Based connected the mobile fig from which the telephone was received, the constabulary traced and contacted the suspect. The idiosyncratic connected the different end, aboriginal identified himself arsenic Vinoth Kumar, claimed helium was lasting extracurricular a TASMAC liquor store connected Camp Road successful Selaiyur. Following this, the Teynampet constabulary alerted Selaiyur police, who rushed to the spot and detained Vinoth.

During questioning, it was recovered that helium was heavy drunk and had made the weaponry threat. After an inquiry, helium was arrested and sent for judicial remand connected Monday.