Sharad Pawar gets death threat; Bihar man held

A man has been arrested from Bihar for repeatedly making threat calls to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar's Mumbai residence, police said on Tuesday. The caller threatened to shoot the politician with a pistol.

N Soni (45) was arrested by a Mumbai police team in Patna and is being brought here, said an official of Gamdevi police station.

Soni had been allegedly calling Pawar's bungalow, 'Silver Oak,' for the last three to four months.

The caller allegedly used obscene language and on some occasions told the constable on duty “Mumbai aake desi katte se uda doonga” (will come to Mumbai and shoot with a country-made gun), said the official.

Police traced his identity from his mobile number and warned him.

Soni, however, kept making calls, so an FIR was finally registered on Monday under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) including 294 (obscene act) and 506-II (criminal intimidation), the official said.

The former chief minister of Maharashtra was recently hospitalised in October for three days at Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital after reportedly feeling "uneasy."