Police nabbed a photographer from Nagercoil after he allegedly threatened the railway police over phone that bombs would explode in Chennai on Saturday when All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Jayalalithaa would assume office.
Sources in the police said an unidentified caller, who contacted officials at Egmore railway station in Chennai on Thursday midnight over the phone, warned that the bombs planted by him would go off at several places when Ms. Jayalalithaa would assume office.
With the event scheduled for Saturday morning, Chennai has come under heavy police cover, especially the Chepauk campus of the University of Madras where the swearing in will commence at 11 a.m.
When the police tracked the call with the help of the mobile phone number recorded in the calling line identification presentation (CLIP), they zeroed in on a nurse attached to Government Stanley Hospital in Chennai. Enquiries with her revealed that her husband, residing in Vettaveli, Nagercoil, was using the number. Immeditely, Kanyakumari police were alerted.
Three special police teams, deputed by Kanyakumari Superintendent of Police N. Manivannan, rushed to Vattavilai and nabbed Sivakumar (43), a photographer, who was under the influence of alcohol in the early hours.
During interrogation at Kottar police station, the police found that he had made the threat call in an inebriated condition.
He was later identified as a member of the Marumalarchi Dravida Munetra Kazhagam, and party leader Vaiko announced that he had expelled Sivakumar.
Sivakumar, who used to reside with his family in Ayanavaram in Chennai, is also said to be suffering from mental illness.
Further investigations are on.
