A nun has fuelled a major controversy after issuing a death threat to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in a Facebook post. Selton D’souza, who is also an advocate, said someone should ‘kill’ CM Vijayan during the latter’s campaign for local body polls.
“At least during the campaign, someone should throw a bomb and kill him. The world that killed a good man like Rajiv Gandhi is capable of doing this as well,” she posted.
The Congregation of the Mother of Carmel stated that D’souza’s membership had been officially terminated in 2009 following proper canonical procedures and therefore she is not legally permitted to wear the congregation’s religious habit.
Reports suggest that she is a supporter of the Twenty20 political party.
Meanwhile, Kerala Education Minister V Sivankutty expressed deep shock over the Facebook comment made by Teena Jose. He said that such a statement is unacceptable, as it directly threatens an individual’s life.
Man arrested for issuing death threat to Delhi CM Rekha Gupta
In early June, police detained a man accused of threatening to kill Chief Minister Rekha Gupta. The threat was reportedly made through a call to the Ghaziabad police control room, which then informed the Delhi Police.
The caller was identified as Shlok Tiwari, a Ghaziabad resident who works as a deed writer at a local court and is also studying for his bachelor’s degree in law. According to investigators, Tiwari allegedly became frustrated when police did not intervene in a dispute between him and his estranged wife, leading him to make the threat.
Authorities also revealed that Tiwari had dialed the emergency helpline more than 40 times between February and June.
