E-Paper
Rajasthan CM Bhajan Lal Sharma gets death threat; call traced to Dausa jail
The threat call was reportedly made by 29-year-old Rinku, a man serving life sentence in a rape case.
A prisoner from Dausa's Salaswal jail in Rajasthan on Friday night allegedly threatened to kill chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, police said.
One 29-year-old Rinku, imprisoned for life in a rape case, called the Jaipur police control room and threatened to kill the CM, news agency PTI reported, citing police.
The location of the mobile phone, which was used to make the threat call, was traced back to the Salaswas jail. Police said that after a four hour-long intense search operation in at jail premises from 3 am to 7 am, the phone was recovered.
Inspector General of jail Vikram Singh was given the responsibility to investigate the matter, state home minister Jawahar Singh Bedham said.
ALSO READ | Rajasthan CM gets death threat from jail inmate; second in 6 months: Police
"In Dousa jail, a criminal, namely Rinku/Ranwa, he is jailed in POCSO act. Through mobile, he called the control room yesterday and threatened to kill CM Bhajanlal Sharma," the state home minister told news agency ANI.
Bedham also questioned as to "how did the criminal get a phone?"
The state minister further noted that the jail authorities had inspected the jail cells just an hour before, adding that there is a possibility of another prison officer being involved in the incident.
"Prima facie it looks like an officer inside the jail is also involved. We will take strict action so that such incidents don't happen again," Bedham said.
While the motive behind the death threat remained unclear, police officials said that they were further investigating the matter.
In July 2024, a prisoner from the Dausa central jail had threatened to kill CM Sharma. Previously in January that year, a POCSO convict from the Jaipur central jail had also called the Jaipur police control room and threatened to shoot Sharma.
In a similar incident, the Mumbai police on Thursday received emails containing a threat to blow up the car of Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde.
The threat emails were received at two police stations, Goregaon and JJ Marg. The crime branch officials on Friday arrested two persons from Deulgaon Mahi village for allegedly sending the death threat emails against Shinde to police stations.
ALSO READ | Two arrested for threatening to blow up Eknath Shinde’s car
Police had traced the origin of the emails to a mobile phone using technical analysis.
Last year in November, the Mumbai traffic police had received a death threat aimed at Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath. The threat, which was received on WhatsApp, demanded that Adityanath resign from his position within 10 days or face dire consequences.
The message warned that he will be "killed like Baba Siddique", referencing to the murder of the former minister and NCP (Ajit Pawar) leader.
(with PTI, ANI inputs)
