<p>Chennai: There have been incidents of public threats to the life of Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi but a "studied indifference" by the state police to the matter has vitiated his security, the Raj Bhavan alleged.</p><p>The "bomb attacks" on the Raj Bhavan on Wednesday, where a man hurled a Molotov cocktail, "is a consequence of it", it further alleged.</p><p>In a complaint to the Chennai Police Commissioner regarding the incident, the governor's office also alleged verbal attacks and threats "mostly by leaders and workers of DMK and its allies in their public meetings and through their social media."</p><p>The complaint copy was released to the media.</p><p>"These threats are intended to overawe the Governor and restrain him from discharging his Constitutional duties. However, complaints lodged with the police have been inconsequential due to police inaction," it said.</p><p>Ravi was 'physically attacked with sticks and stones while he was on his way to attend a function at the Dharmapuram Adhinam in Mayiladuthurai district earlier.</p>.Petrol bombs hurled outside Tamil Nadu Raj Bhavan; one arrested.<p>While a complaint was lodged, no FIR was registered. The same was the case with some other similar incidents, it claimed.</p>.<p>The police "instead trivialised the serious incidents into minor offences with no worthwhile follow-up.</p>.<p>"Such a studied indifference by police to serious threats to the Governor has vitiated the security of the Governor and Raj Bhavan. Today's brazen bomb attacks on the Raj Bhavan is a consequence of it," it said.</p>.<p>"It further said a governor cannot work under the shadow of constant threats and urged the top city police official to take serious cognizance of Wednesday's attacks which constitute offences including under section 124 of the IPC 'specifically intended for threats to a governor," it added.</p>.<p>A copy of the complaint, from the governor's deputy secretary Dr T Sengottaiyan, was also marked to the state police chief.</p>.<p>A Molotov cocktail, called a 'petrol bomb' in local parlance, was lobbed by a man, since arrested, in front of Raj Bhavan's main gate here on Wednesday. There was no damage nor anyone injured in the incident, police had said.</p>
<p>Chennai: There have been incidents of public threats to the life of Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi but a "studied indifference" by the state police to the matter has vitiated his security, the Raj Bhavan alleged.</p><p>The "bomb attacks" on the Raj Bhavan on Wednesday, where a man hurled a Molotov cocktail, "is a consequence of it", it further alleged.</p><p>In a complaint to the Chennai Police Commissioner regarding the incident, the governor's office also alleged verbal attacks and threats "mostly by leaders and workers of DMK and its allies in their public meetings and through their social media."</p><p>The complaint copy was released to the media.</p><p>"These threats are intended to overawe the Governor and restrain him from discharging his Constitutional duties. However, complaints lodged with the police have been inconsequential due to police inaction," it said.</p><p>Ravi was 'physically attacked with sticks and stones while he was on his way to attend a function at the Dharmapuram Adhinam in Mayiladuthurai district earlier.</p>.Petrol bombs hurled outside Tamil Nadu Raj Bhavan; one arrested.<p>While a complaint was lodged, no FIR was registered. The same was the case with some other similar incidents, it claimed.</p>.<p>The police "instead trivialised the serious incidents into minor offences with no worthwhile follow-up.</p>.<p>"Such a studied indifference by police to serious threats to the Governor has vitiated the security of the Governor and Raj Bhavan. Today's brazen bomb attacks on the Raj Bhavan is a consequence of it," it said.</p>.<p>"It further said a governor cannot work under the shadow of constant threats and urged the top city police official to take serious cognizance of Wednesday's attacks which constitute offences including under section 124 of the IPC 'specifically intended for threats to a governor," it added.</p>.<p>A copy of the complaint, from the governor's deputy secretary Dr T Sengottaiyan, was also marked to the state police chief.</p>.<p>A Molotov cocktail, called a 'petrol bomb' in local parlance, was lobbed by a man, since arrested, in front of Raj Bhavan's main gate here on Wednesday. There was no damage nor anyone injured in the incident, police had said.</p>