Akshay M Hakke, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central), said Rajiv has been undergoing treatment at Bengaluru’s Nimhans for the past five years.

A 62-year-old man has been arrested for threatening to blow up a Bengaluru metro station if employees at the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) “mentally tortured” his ex-wife “after duty hours”. The man has had a history of mental illness.

Police identified the sender as Rajiv, a resident of Belthur, according to a report by The Indian Express.

According to investigators, the threat was sent to the official BMRCL email ID from rajivsettyptp@gmail.com at around 11.25 pm on November 13.

The email read: “If ever I come to know that your metro employees are torturing mentally to my past divorced wife Padmini after duty hours, be

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