Bihar BJP MP Pradeep Kumar Singh Receives Death Threat From Nepal, FIR Lodged

BJP MP from Araria Pradeep Kumar Singh received a death threat via calls and message from Nepal demanding a Rs 10 lakh ransom and release of a notorious criminal, Dinesh Rathod, who is lodged in jail for the last 15 years. An FIR has been lodged and investigations are on, police said.

Araria (Bihar): BJP MP from Bihar's Araria, Pradeep Kumar Singh, has received a death threat over phone, where the caller demanded a ransom of Rs 10 lakh and asked him to release Dinesh Rathod, a notorious criminal, from jail.

The call and the messages were received from a Nepal number and Vinod Rathod, younger brother of jailed notorious criminal Dinesh Rathod has been accused of issuing the threat.

The MP has filed a report to the SHO of Araria police station, Manish Kumar Rajak, based on which, police have lodged an FIR in this regard.

In his report, Singh said that he received two phone calls from an international number belonging to Nepal at around 1:51 pm on August 27 but the MP did not answer the calls. Later, he received a message from the same number where the sender asked him to release Dinesh Rathod, who is lodged in jail, and to pay a ransom of Rs 10 lakh.

"In the message, the sender wrote, release my brother Dinesh Rathod from jail and send Rs 10 lakh to my brother at the jail gate else we will blow you up with bombs and bullets in Araria at any time," Singh said.

Singh told police that he saw the message on September 1. He said that Dinesh Rathod and his gang have been targeting him for a long time. Rathod, who is behind the bars for the last 15 years, has more than five dozen cases of kidnapping, murder and extortion registered against him. Rathod's two brothers are also notorious criminals and the younger one, Vinod Rathod, is presently out of jail.

City police station in-charge Manish Kumar Rajak said the matter is being investigated. "This is a serious matter and we are investigating it on urgent basis," Rajak said.

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