'I Will Blow Up Eknath Shinde': Maharashtra Chief Minister Gets Death Threat, Accused Arrested From Pune
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has received a death threat.
New Delhi: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde received a death threat on Monday evening. According to reports, an anonymous caller dialed the control room of the Maharashtra police and issued a death threat, stating, "I will blow up Eknath Shinde," before disconnecting the call abruptly.
The Maharashtra police received a call on the emergency control number 112, in which the caller threatened to blow up the state's Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
After receiving the threatening call, the police immediately sprung into action and traced the caller's location. The Pune police subsequently arrested the caller, who is a resident of Mumbai's Dharavi area.
During the interrogation, it was revealed that the caller was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the call.
A squad of the Mumbai Crime Branch also visited his residence in Dharavi at night, but he was not found there. After tracing his location to Pune, a team comprising of Pune Police and Nagpur ATS apprehended him from there and initiated further proceedings.
This comes after Eknath Shinde visited the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on Sunday.
Notably, this was the first visit of Shinde to Ayodhya after being sworn in as the chief minister of Maharashtra in June last year, reported PTI.
Addressing a press conference in Ayodhya, Shinde said that the “construction of the divine temple was the dream of millions of Ram devotees.”
“Nobody did anything for the Ram Mandir, only PM Modi did...He has fulfilled Balasaheb Thackeray's dream of Ram Mandir,” he added.
Earlier, Shinde had visited Ayodhya as a Shiv Sena leader on November 25, 2018, a year before the Supreme Court announced the verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute.
He also visited Ayodhya in March 2020 and June last year.
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