The Mysuru city police has urged telecom service providers to provide details of subscribers who used their mobile phones to make threatening calls to noted writer and rationalist K.S. Bhagawan.
"We have collected the call details from the complaint made by Prof. Bhagawan and sent them to the telecom service providers to ascertain the identity of callers and their location,” a police official familiar with the investigation told The Hindu .
A total of 20 calls, including two from the same number, were made to Prof. Bhagawan on Sunday evening. In his complaint, Prof. Bhagawan said the callers spoke to him in a vulgar and offensive language.
The police, which is considering the calls as threatening calls, will summon all the persons in whose names the phones are registered and question them.
The Kuvempunagar police, based on Prof. Bhagawan’s complaint, will also register an FIR in this regard.
Prof. Bhagawan, who had earlier been targeted on social media by right wing groups for his alleged anti-Hindu remarks, received multiple phone calls after being chosen for Karnataka Sahitya Academy's annual honorary award for lifetime achievement for 2013.
