Union Minister Nitin Gadkari Receives Death Threat At Home

New Delhi: Union Minister and senior BJP leader received a death threat via phone call at his Delhi residence. Police have been informed about the same an investigation is underway. Gadkari received a death threat last evening.

Union minister Nitin Gadkari received a death threat via phone call at his Delhi residence last evening. The minister’s office informed Delhi Police about the same and the matter is under investigation by police now. According to Delhi Police, information regarding the death threat call was given to the police by the minister’s staff, ANI reported.

Earlier 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.

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.