The head of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Sharad Pawar, and the Interior Minister of Maharashtra, Anil Deshmukh, received threatening calls on Monday, a day after the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray, received similar calls. .
The phone calls were made to the residences of both political leaders. The calls threatening Pawar and Deshmukh were allegedly made from outside the country. An investigation has been launched in this regard.
An unidentified man allegedly called Maharashtra CM Thackeray’s personal residence, ‘Matoshree’ in Bandra, and said he was calling from Dubai on behalf of the fugitive underworld Don Dawood Ibrahim, a police officer told PTI news agency on 6 of September. The caller called twice around 10:30 pm Saturday, after which police reinforced security at Thackeray’s bungalow located in the Kalanagar neighborhood, the official said.
“Someone called the ‘Matoshree’ phone number twice on Saturday night and said that Dawood Ibrahim wanted to speak to CM Uddhav Thackeray. However, the telephone operator did not transfer the call to CM,” the official said. “The caller did not reveal his identity, he only said that he was calling from Dubai on behalf of Dawood Ibrahim. Both calls were received around 10:30 pm,” he added.
Local police were later informed about the calls, after which an additional security force was deployed outside the bungalow, the official said.
According to him, no case was registered in this regard. Speaking to PTI, a senior police official said: “We are trying to verify if the calls we received were from Dubai or some other place. The investigation is ongoing.” Meanwhile, Maharashtra Transport Minister Anil Parab has dismissed reports that the caller threatened to blow up the prime minister’s residence. “There was no threat of blowing up ‘Matoshree’,” he said. “The police have been informed about the calls and are being investigated,” said the Shiv Sena leader.
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