India
Minutes after news broke that Maoists were plotting the murder ofPrime Minister Narendra Modi, media reports have said that Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and his family also received a death threat.
Friday that two threat letters addressed to the office of the chief minister of Maharashtra were received. The letters mentioned retribution for the recent Gadchiroli encounter, where 37 Maoist cadres were killed in under 48 hours. The letters also threatened attacks on the chief minister’s family, sources in the Maharashtra home department told news agency ANI.
Reacting to the news, Fadnavis told reporters that he has handed over the threat letters to the police, who will investigate the matter further.
He also said that a greater conspiracy hatched by the so-called ‘urban Maoists’ was uncovered during the investigation into the Bhima-Koregaon violence in Pune. He said that the internal communiques, letters, and hard drives recovered from the various raids conducted by the police revealed a money trail, which showed funds were re-routed to help influence people in the cities as well. He said that the evidence collected so far indicated deeper links, which will be investigated.
The Maharashtra Police have also released pictures of four more persons involved in the Bhima-Koregaon riots of 1 January, that left one person dead, and appealed to the public to inform them of their whereabouts.
