Bhopal, Oct 15 (Inditop.com) An anonymous caller claiming to be a Maoist guerrilla has threatened to blow up Madhya Pradesh Minister for Housing and Environment Jayant Malaiya on Diwali, police said Thursday.
The call on the minister’s phone Tuesday was attended by his personal assistant J.P. Namdev.
The caller insisted on talking to the minister. “Later he said that he would blow up the minister; when I asked him about his identity, he said he was a Naxalite,” Namdev told police.
Police has registered a case of criminal intimidation after receiving a written complaint from the minister’s personal staff.
“Preliminary investigations have revealed that the cell phone used to make the threatening call is registered in the name of a Damoh based person whose location at the time of calling has been traced to Sagar district,” a police official said.
