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Bhuabeswar (Orissa) : The Cuttack-Bhubaneswar diocese Archbishop, Raphael Cheenath, has claimed that he is facing a threat to his life in the aftermath of Swami Laxamananda Saraswati's killing in Kandhamal district on August 23.
"I received an anonymous letter from some Hindu youth organisation which threatened to eliminate me," Archbishop Cheenath revealed after meeting Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday.
Stating that he had informed the matter to the Chief Minister, Cheenath said he became "careful" after receiving the letter.
Replying to a question on the reasons behind his long stay at Delhi, particularly during the large scale violence in Kandhamal, Cheenath said the letter came to him during the last week of August after the killing of Saraswati. Cheenath, however, said that he was not scared of the threats.
Sources said the Orissa police after the threat letter to the Archbishop, had made elaborate security arrangements around various Bishop's houses and other Christian institutions across the state.
