Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has received two threat letters allegedly from Maoist organisations which were handed over to the police, sources in the state home department said on Friday.
The letters were received by the Chief Minister’s office a week ago, they said. “The letters came after the recent anti-Naxal operations in Gadchiroli, in which 39 Maoists were killed. The letters have been handed over to the police for further investigations,” the sources said.
According to the ministry sources, both letters mentioned the Gadchiroli encounters, and threatened Fadnavis and his family members.
Earlier in the day, the Pune Police had claimed before a court that among the seized documents, a letter has been recovered that mentions “another Rajiv Gandhi incident”.
Former Prime Minister Gandhi was killed by a LTTE suicide bomber during his campaign for the May 1991 Lok Sabha elections in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu.
The letter was recovered from the Delhi house of one of the five accused, Rona Wilson, that talks of requirement of Rs 8 crore to procure M-4 rifle and four-lakh rounds, and also about “another Rajiv Gandhi incident”, district government pleader Ujjwala Pawar told the court.
“We are thinking along the lines of another Rajiv Gandhi incident. It sounds suicidal and there is a chance that we might fail but party must deliberate on our proposal,” Pawar quoted the letter.
On Wednesday, police arrested Dalit activist Sudhir Dhawale, lawyer Surendra Gadling, Mahesh Raut, Shoma Sen and Rona Wilson from Mumbai, Nagpur and Delhi in connection with ‘Elgar Parishad’ held in held at Shaniwarwada in Pune on December 31, 2017, and the subsequent Bhima-Koregaon violence in the district. All five were produced before the sessions court which remanded them in police custody till June 14.