Ex-councillor charged with threatening BBMP official

A former councillor has been charged on Thursday with allegedly abusing and threatening a senior Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike official.

In his complaint with the Amruthahalli police station, BBMP’s Joint Commissioner (Yelahanka zone) Sarfaraz Khan said that the former ruling party leader N.R. Ramesh threatened him with dire consequences if a report on road cutting and Optical Fibre Cables at Yelahanka was not prepared and submitted to him.

The problem started after Mr. Khan said he could give the report only to his higher-ups and not directly to the councillor.

In the complaint, he alleged that Mr. Ramesh, in his response, said, “You don’t know who I am. Do you think this is Afghanistan? I can pack you and your father to Pakistan.”

The former councillor has been accused of threatening the official with complaints to the Lokayukta and Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force.

Responding to the allegations, Mr. Ramesh told

The Hindu that he had not threatened or abused anyone.

Sarfaraz Khan has filed complaint against N.R. Ramesh with the Amruthahalli police