Armed 'mentally unstable' man arrested at John Kerry's hotel
September 01, 2016  19:51
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A "mentally unstable" man, son of a retired senior Navy officer, was arrested last night for carrying a blade and misbehaving with security personnel at a high-security five-star hotel, where US Secretary of State John Kerry was staying.

53-year-old Uday Ratra, a resident of Gurdaspur in Punjab, was detained when he picked up a fight with the security personnel.
He was booked under IPC sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) and 386 (extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt) after had a scuffle with the police and the hotel's security staff, who objected to his loitering in the lobby last evening, police said. 

"He is mentally unstable. He was roaming around in the lobby of the hotel. The hotel security staff knew him as in the past too he had tried to enter the premises when foreign dignitaries were visiting," a senior police official said.
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