India, March 11 -- A 29-year-old man who had jumped bail in 2018 after being arrested for threatening to throw acid on Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Monday rearrested by the DB Marg police. The accused, Kashinath Mandal, was changing his phone number and location constantly to evade arrest after fleeing the city in 2018, officers familiar with the matter said. He returned to Mumbai around 15 days ago and took up a job as a security guard in Kalachowkie, from where he was arrested, the officers noted.

According to the police, in 2018, Mandal, who hails from Jharkhand, had called the control room of the elite central counterterrorism force, the National Security Guard (NSG), and threatened to throw acid on the Prime Minister.

The DB...