India, Aug. 22 -- New Delhi

A day after the Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta was assaulted at a weekly public hearing programme at her residence, the Delhi Police said the accused revealed during initial interrogation that he undertook the attack due to "visions" of deities, telling him to act on "torture" of street dogs.

The accused, Rajeshbhai Khimjibhai Sakriya, 41, from Rajkot in Gujarat, posed as a complainant and attacked the CM while she was listening to the grievances of people. Police on Thursday said Sakriya was sent to a five-day police custody by a Delhi court.

Sakriya has already been interrogated by all senior police officers in the northern range, teams of Special Cell and others, officers said.

A senior officer, who in...