Officials stated that independent Lok Sabha MP Navneet Rana, who was recently granted bail in the Matoshree-Hanuman Chalisa case by a Mumbai court, submitted a complaint with Delhi Police on Wednesday stating that she received several life-threatening calls.
The MP got eleven calls on her cellphone number on Tuesday from 5:27 pm to 5:47 pm, according to a complaint filed by her assistant. According to the complaint, the person on the other end of the line unpleasantly talked to her insulted her and threatened to kill her if she travelled to Maharashtra.
According to the complaint, the caller told the Amravati MP, “if you recite Hanuman Chalisa again, you will be murdered.”
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Ms Rana was also traumatized, according to the complaint filed at the North Avenue police station in the New Delhi area.
According to a senior police official, the complaint has been received, and legal action has been conducted.
In April, Ms Rana and her MLA husband, Ravi Rana, declared that they would recite the Hanuman Chalisa outside Matoshree, Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sen President Uddhav Thackeray’s home house in Mumbai.
For their persistence in chanting the Hanuman Chalisa outside Matoshree, they were arrested on April 23 by Mumbai police on accusations of sedition and inciting communal hatred.
A Mumbai court granted the two MPs bail on May 4.
