Delhi Police say suspect, a mosque caretaker, claimed he had found the bullet in a donation box and had forgotten to throw it.
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has arrested a man for allegedly carrying a bullet to the residence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, less than a week after another man was held for throwing chilli powder at him.
The man, identified as Mohammad Imran, 39, was Monday accompanying a group of clerics who wanted to speak to the chief minister regarding increasing the salary paid by the Waqf board. He was headed to Kejriwal’s residence, at New Delhi’s Civil Lines, for a Janta Durbar.
“The Delhi police personnel deployed outside the CM’s residence found the bullet when they were frisking him,” said Harendra Kumar, additional commissioner of police, North district. “They informed the local police station and we arrested the man around noon yesterday.”
The police have lodged a case under Section 25 of the Arms Act against the perpetrator, who is a caretaker at the Masjid Bawli Wali in Karol Bagh. Imran is believed to have told the police that he had found the cartridges in the donation box at the mosque, had placed them in his wallet and forgotten about them.
“He wanted to hand over the cartridges to the police or throw them somewhere. However, he never did that,” said Harendra Kumar. “He will be prosecuted for carrying unauthorised weapons.”
Imran is slated to be produced before a local court Tuesday.
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The latest incident comes less than a week after another that raised questions about the chief minister’s security detail. On Thursday, 22 November, the police arrested Anil Sharma for allegedly attacking Kejriwal with chilli powder outside his office in the Delhi Secretariat.
Sharma had claimed that the powder just fell out of his pocket, but police found out that he had allegedly broken glass panes in the Delhi Secretariat a year and a half ago after he was denied a meeting with the chief minister.
The police claimed the attacker was “unstable and incoherent.”
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In an address at the special one-day Assembly session convened last evening, Kejriwal had hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling on him to “resign” if he can’t protect the Delhi chief minister.
Kejriwal even mentioned a phone call that he had had with Home Minister Rajnath Singh when the latter had called to inquire about the chilli powder attack. According to the chief minister, he told Rajnath that “either you are useless or complicit”.
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