Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra on Thursday claimed to have received a death threat via telephone for speaking on the Jawaharlal Nehru University issue.
The Minister claimed the caller identified himself as Pujari and threatened to shoot him dead if he did not control his tongue on the JNU controversy. Mr. Mishra was unsure if the caller was Ravi Pujari, an underworld don notorious for making threat calls to high-profile people.
When the Minister tried to argue, the caller allegedly told him that he will definitely be shot dead for arguing with him.
Mr. Mishra was quick to take up the issue with the President and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, whom he sent a letter seeking action against the caller. He also called up the local police to complain about the alleged threats, but is yet to get a case registered.
“We offered to send an investigating officer to take his complaint at his residence or a place of his choice, but he said he was too busy. We will register a FIR and begin a probe as soon as the Minister registers his complaint,” said a senior police officer.
Speaking to The Hindu , Mr. Mishra acknowledged that he had only made phone calls to the local Station House Officer, but not met the police personally because of his busy schedule.
Mr. Mishra said he received the call at 8.48 a.m. from a “four-digit number”. The calls appears to have been made over the Internet. He further claimed to have received missed calls from similar numbers prior to this, but had chosen to ignore them as they were unknown numbers.
“I have always raised my voice against such divisive elements and will continue to do so. I refuse to get threatened or be cowed down by such elements,” said Mr. Mishra in his letter to the Home Minister.
Kapil Mishra claimed that he was threatened for speaking on the JNU controversy
