New Delhi, Jun 7 (PTI) A 25-year-old man was apprehended on Saturday for allegedly giving a death threat to Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, police said.

The accused was identified as Shlok Tripathi, a police source said, adding that he is a fraudster and frequently changes his identity.

He made the threat on the emergency helpline 112 in neighbouring Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday.

The Ghaziabad police alerted their Delhi counterparts and also dispatched a team to Panchwati Colony, from where the call was reportedly made, the caller managed to evade getting caught, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Ghaziabad, Ritesh Tripathi said.

Tripathi was eventually held on Saturday in a joint operation of the Ghaziabad Police and Delhi Police. He is being interrogated in the office of the Delhi Police’s Special Cell in the northwest part of the city.

During interrogation, the accused told police that he was in an inebriated condition when he made the call. PTI SSJ COR NAV RHL