Sharad Pawar, Anil Deshmukh get threat calls

September 07, 2020 20:58

NCP chief Sharad Pawar

Even as the police are probing the threat call to blow up Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's private residence in Mumbai, an anonymous caller phoned Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh's Nagpur office, threatening him and NCP chief Sharad Pawar, a minister said.

The police have been informed and they are investigating,the state minister, who did not wish to be named, told reporters at Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai on Monday.

On Sunday, the Mumbai police had beefed up security outside Thackeray's residence Matoshree after an unidentified caller, claiming to be fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's aide, called the bungalow's landline number.

Maharashtra NCP unit president and Water Resources Minister Jayant Patil said "the threats to the chief minister and Sharad Pawar were a serious matter".

"Anti-social elements are trying to raise their heads again. The state home department will probe the matter," he told reporters.

Leader of Opposition in Assembly, Devendra Fadnavis, demanded a proper investigation into the matter.

"I think these threat calls need to be properly investigated," he said. "It needs to be checked whether these were serious threat calls or if somebody is doing it deliberately," he added.

-- PTI

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