New Delhi (India), April 24, 2023: On Sunday, Kerala police apprehended M Xavier, a resident of Kaloor, Kochi, for allegedly sending a letter threatening a suicide bomb attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his two-day visit to the state starting on Monday.
Xavier confessed to the police that he wrote the letter in the name of another individual with whom he held a personal animosity, and whose name and phone number were mentioned in the missive. Kochi City Police Commissioner K Sethuraman told the media that the threat mentioned in Xavier’s letter was a hoax, and that the accused wished to implicate another person. Xavier’s arrest followed the gathering of scientific evidence and forensic handwriting analysis conducted by the police.
Following the investigation of the threat letter, the police traced the address of a person named N K Johny, alias Joseph John, who denied having written the letter but expressed the suspicion that a person who harbored a grudge towards him was likely to be behind the incident. On examining the handwriting in the letter, he pointed to Xavier as the possible culprit. The animosity between the two arose from a financial dispute at their local church.
Prime Minister Modi is scheduled to inaugurate Kerala’s first Vande Bharat Express between Thiruvananthapuram and Kasaragod at Thiruvananthapuram Central Station on Tuesday. He will also lay the foundation stone for projects worth more than Rs 3,200 crore and dedicate the Kochi Water Metro to the nation.
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