NCP Says Death Threat Issued To Sharad Pawar On Social Media, Party Leaders Meet Mumbai Police Chief

Narendra Dabholkar, who fought against superstitious beliefs, was shot dead by two bike-borne assailants during his morning walk in Pune on August 20, 2013. Sule submitted printouts of the screenshots of the death threat to the police.?

PTI

Updated on: 9 June 2023 7:14 am

Veteran politician Sharad Pawar

Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar has received a “death threat” on social media, NCP claimed on Friday. Taking cognisance of the matter, Mumbai police are in the process of registering a first information report, a senior police official said.

A delegation of NCP workers led by Pawar’s daughter and Lok Sabha member Supriya Sule met Mumbai police chief Vivek ?Phansalkar demanding action.?The NCP leaders told the police that 82-year-old Pawar received a message on Facebook that read “he will meet the same fate as (Narendra) Dabholkar soon”.

A senior police official told PTI that they have been informed about the threat to the NCP chief on a social media platform. “We are looking into it. We have started a probe,” the official said.? NCP had sent a representative to lodge a police complaint, the official said. “The police are in the process of registering an FIR in this connection at South Region Cyber police station,” he added.