A history sheeter on Wednesday afternoon hurled a petrol bomb targetting the high-security main gate of Raj Bhavan in Guindy where Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi resides. Police personnel who were on duty at the gate, caught him and took him into custody.
Police said at around 3 p.m., a person who walked up from Sardar Patel Road and stood near the Highway Research station, lit a wick on a bottle filled with petrol and threw targetting the main gate of Raj Bhavan. It stopped far short of the gate and landed on the road near the iron barricade before the main gate.