Nitin Gadkari, the Union minister for roads and transport, has been threatened to cough up Rs 100 crore, or else would be blown up in an explosions according to an unnamed extortionist who claimed to be speaking on behalf of a foreign don.
Around 11.30 am, three calls came in on a landline at Gadkari’s Khamla office in Nagpur. It has been discovered that the caller threatened the union minister using the name of Dawood Ibrahim, a terrorist supported by Pakistan’s ISI.
According to police officials, Hubli in Karnataka is where the calls are most likely to have come from. They said that the union minister’s security, who already had Z plus, had been strengthened.
City police has taken immediate action
In response to a threat call, city police had taken immediate action. Senior officials including Zonal DCP Anurag Jain have rushed to the spot. The city police’s cyber cell equipment is already functioning.
According to sources, even the security personnel from the other states were alerted as the call appeared to have come from somewhere other than Maharashtra. Following the threat calls, CP Amitesh Kumar, who was previously in Pune, is hurriedly returning to Nagpur.
“In the space of ten minutes, there had been two threat calls. Unknown caller who claimed to be from the Dawood gang demanded Rs 100 crores. The entire scenario is currently being verified, “The CP added that all relevant security measures and racket-busting steps have already been done.
State Anti-terrorist squad (ATS) and the rest of the state and central intelligence machineries too have been activated.
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