Days after Impartial MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav wrote to Union Residence Minister Amit Shah, demanding enhanced safety within the aftermath of the ‘loss of life threats’ he obtained allegedly from a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, Bihar Police on Saturday (November 2) mentioned they’d arrested an individual in connection to the threatening name made to the Parliament MP from Bihar’s Purnea earlier final month.
In response to the data obtained, the accused, recognized as Mahesh Pandey, was arrested from New Delhi and is presently being interrogated. The police mentioned whereas the accused confessed to his crime of contacting the MP via WhatsApp, utilizing a SIM card he had borrowed from his spouse’s sister, who lives within the UAE; nonetheless, no connection was discovered between him (the accused) and the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.
“The accused (Pandey) performed the prank on Yadav, whose quantity he discovered from Google, upon coming throughout studies of the MP’s outbursts towards Bishnoi quickly after the assassination of former Maharashtra minister and NCP chief Baba Siddiqui in Mumbai,” the police official acknowledged.
Considerably, now, whereas the police cleared the air over the small print relating to the threatening name made to the gangster turned politician Pappu Yadav, the latter, within the aftermath of the incident, nonetheless, had shot off a letter to Union Residence Minister Amit Shah, demanding elevated safety for him given a “threatening name from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.”.
Sharing his letter talked about to Union Residence Minister Amit Shah together with the officers from the Bihar Authorities, the Impartial MP sought an improve of his ‘Y’ safety cowl to ‘Z’. Yadav additionally demanded “police escort” be offered to him in any respect features he attends throughout the state, warning that “if he will get murdered, the blame shall fall upon the Centre in addition to the state authorities.”
(With inputs from PTI)