A man has been arrested from a Jharkhand village for allegedly issuing threat letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Home Minister P Chidambaram, police said on Saturday.

Dhananjay Kumar Mehta was arrested in Narayanpur village of Latehar district, 145 km from state capital Ranchi, on Friday. A pistol, some live cartridges and other documents were found in his possession, the police claimed.