NCP says death threat issued to Sharad Pawar on social media, party leaders meet Mumbai police chief
Taking cognisance of the matter, Mumbai police are in the process of registering a first information report, a senior police official said.A delegation of NCP workers led by Pawars daughter and Lok Sabha member Supriya Sule met Mumbai police chief Vivek Phansalkar demanding action. A senior police official told PTI that they have been informed about the threat to the NCP chief on a social media platform.We are looking into it.
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Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar has received a “death threat” on social media, NCP claimed on Friday. Taking cognisance of the matter, Mumbai police are in the process of registering a first information report, a senior police official said.
A delegation of NCP workers led by Pawar’s daughter and Lok Sabha member Supriya Sule met Mumbai police chief Vivek Phansalkar demanding action. The NCP leaders told the police that 82-year-old Pawar received a message on Facebook that read “he will meet the same fate as (Narendra) Dabholkar soon”.
Narendra Dabholkar, who fought against superstitious beliefs, was shot dead by two bike-borne assailants during his morning walk in Pune on August 20, 2013.
Sule submitted printouts of the screenshots of the death threat to the police. A senior police official told PTI that they have been informed about the threat to the NCP chief on a social media platform.
“We are looking into it. We have started a probe,” the official said. NCP had sent a representative to lodge a police complaint, the official said. “The police are in the process of registering an FIR in this connection at South Region Cyber police station,” he added.
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