By IANS
Chennai : A 23-year-old unemployed youth was taken into custody after he reportedly threatened by email to kill Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and his family, police said here.
Police sources claimed that the accused Suresh Kumar had demanded that the engineering syllabus of the Anna University be scrapped as there was “an inherent flaw in the syllabus created by the University six years ago”.
“Failure to comply with this request will result in the entire family of the chief minister being annihilated,” the message had reportedly said.
Upon its receipt at the secretariat in Fort St. George here on Wednesday, the city police’s cyber crime wing swung into action and traced the message’s origin to a cyber café in Tiruchirappalli, 300 km south west of here.
A police team led by K. Sudhakar, assistant commissioner of police – cyber crime, travelled to the temple town, traced and apprehended Kumar Wednesday.
Police indicated that Kumar had found the syllabus “too tough” during his campus life between 2001 and 2005. He is yet to get a graduation certificate as he has failed to pass in three papers.
“I thought that the chief minister would relent after receiving the email and that would get me relief. I have not been able to get a job all these years. This frustrated me,” Kumar is said to have told the police.
He was produced before a local magistrate here and remanded in judicial custody.