Nitin Gadkari Death Threat: Union Minister and senior BJP leader received a death threat via phone call at his Delhi residence. The police have been informed about the same an investigation is underway. The sources on Monday informed that Gadkari received a death threat last evening.
"Union minister Nitin Gadkari received a death threat via phone call at his official residence on Motilal Nehru road in Delhi. The minister's office informed Delhi Police about the same and the matter is under investigation by police now," Sources said.
Delhi Police informed that the information regarding the death threat call received at Union Minister Nitin Gadkari's residence was given to the police by the minister's staff. As per police sources, details are being verified, probe underway.
A senior police official informed that the caller did not share his details and demanded to speak to the minister and threaten him.
"The caller spoke in Hindi and said 'mujhe mantri ji se baat karni hai, unhe threaten karna hai' (I want to talk to the minister and want to threaten him), and disconnected the call," he said.
"All call records details are being analysed. The accused had called on the landline number so we are trying to trace the number to get to the culprit. An enquiry is underway," the officer added.
Gadkari had received threat calls earlier
Notably, the minister's office in Nagpur had received such threat calls on two separate occasions earlier this year.
On January 14, a man named Jayesh Pujari alias Kantha made a threatening call to Gadkari's public relations office in Nagpur. He demanded Rs 100 crore and claimed to be a member of the Dawood Ibrahim gang. Jayesh Pujari was a murder convict, who was arrested from jail in Karnataka's Belagavi, and booked under the anti-terror law UAPA.
Later on March 21, Pujari again made a call threatening to harm the BJP Lok Sabha MP from Nagpur if Rs 10 crore was not paid to him.
Pujari had relations with terrorists
As per a report of PTI, after receiving the green signal from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, NIA officials launched an investigation on the terror angle as Pujari had relations with terrorists, including Lashkar-e-Taiba's South Division chief Captain Naseer, said the official.
