City resident held for threatening Aaditya Thackeray

Mumbai: Mumbai Police have arrested a man from Bengaluru for allegedly threatening Maharashtra cabinet minister Aaditya Thackeray, following which the state government on Thursday announced that an SIT would be set up to probe the incidents of threat issued to legislators and others, and a policy would be framed to deal with such cases.

Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil said at the Legislative Assembly that the man, identified as Jaisingh Rajput, who threatened Thackeray, was apprehended in Karnataka by the Mumbai crime branch’s cyber team and brought to Mumbai. A police official earlier said that Rajput had allegedly called Aaditya Thackeray on December 8, but the latter did not receive the call. After that the accused had sent threatening text messages to the minister. Aaditya Thackeray, the son of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, holds the Environment and Tourism portfolios.

During the investigation, the cyber police traced the caller’s mobile number to Bengaluru in neighbouring Karnataka. Accordingly, a team was sent to Bengaluru, where the accused person was arrested, the official said. He was later produced before a court which sent him in police custody. The accused was a fan of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, the official said.