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Pappu Yadav shot off letters to Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, urging security to be tightened, after receiving a call “from a Dubai number”.
Pappu Yadav (PTI photo)
The Bihar police on Saturday said they have arrested in the state capital a person who recently made a threatening phone call to Independent Member of Parliament Rajesh Ranjan, identified as Pappu Yadav, posing as a friend of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.
According to a statement issued by the Purnea police, which is Yadav’s parliamentary constituency, a case was registered on the basis of a tip-off from the media and the caller was identified as Delhi resident Mahesh Pandey.
Yadav shot off letters to Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, urging security to be tightened, after receiving a call “from a Dubai number”.
The police, however, made it clear that so far there is “no link with the gang of Lawrence Bishnoi” of Pandey, who has been arrested and is being interrogated.
Honorable Sasand Mr. Pippu Yadav was arrested in the event of threats by the police. @bihar_ampolice @IPRDBihar @BiharHomeDept pic.twitter.com/lwqRuVQyaA– Purnea Police (@PurneaSp) November 2, 2024
According to the police, Pandey admitted that he communicated with the Member of Parliament, through WhatsApp, using the SIM card he had borrowed from his wife’s sister who lives in the UAE.
According to the police, Pandey played this game on Yadav, whose number he got from Google, when he received reports of the MP’s rant against Bishnoi after the assassination of former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddiqui.
In particular, Yadav came out with a social media post saying that he can “finish within 24 hours” the Bishnoi gang, which allegedly killed them “if authorized by law” to do so.
The mobile set from which Pandey made the call, along with the SIM card, were seized by the police.
(This story was not edited by News18 staff and was published by the syndicated news agency – PTI)