Anjali Damania alleges Dawood' called
Caller asks to drop charges against Khadse, warns of dire consequences.
Mumbai: Social activist Anjali Damania on Saturday lodged a police complaint claiming that she got a threatening call from Karachi in Pakistan early on Saturday, asking her to withdraw all the complaints she registered against Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) senior leader Eknath Khadse.
According to Damania’s complaint on Saturday, the caller threatened that if she fails to do what is asked of her, they would make her life “miserable”.
Damania took to Twitter and shared the screenshots of the ‘Truecaller’ app, which reveals caller identity. The screenshots showed that her caller’s number belonged to a ‘Dawood 2’ from Pakistan.
According to police sources, Damania received a call from the number early on Saturday, and threatened her of dire consequences if she does not withdraw the complaints she lodged against Khadse. The caller also said that she has made their life miserable and if she does not stop this, her life would be miserable too. Damania has registered a complaint against an unknown person who called her at 12.33 am in the intervening night of Friday and Saturday.
Mrs Damania told The Asian Age, “The call I received at 12.33 am showed in a number identification application that it was a ‘Dawood 2’ calling me from Karachi. I have appealed to the Prime Minister and Home Minister to look into the matter.”
Earlier in September, Damania had lodged a complaint against Khadse alleging that the latter had made obscene comments about her. She is also pursuing corruption cases against him in the Bombay high court. The former Aam Aadmi Party leader had also accused the former Cabinet minister of having direct contact with Dawood in Pakistan.
Deputy commissioner of police (Operations) Rashmi Karandikar confirmed the incident and said, “The FIR has been registered, and the investigation is underway. The search for the accused person is on.”
An FIR has been registered against the unknown caller under section 507 of the IPC that pertains to criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication read with relevant sections of the IT act.