FIR registered after Randeep Surjewala claims life threat from UP gang

Tribune News Service
Panchkula/Gurugram, April 10

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All India Congress spokesperson and former Haryana minister Randeep Singh Surjewala has moved police alleging life threat from a gang in UP.

Surjewala in an online complaint to police claimed that a man who identified himself as a member of the gang headed by Mukhtar Ansari, Raja Bhaiya and Papu Yadav, threatened to shoot him and his cousin Sudeep.

“I was with my neighbour and also attending video conference when the call was made to landline. The caller identified himself to be a member of the gang headed by Mukhtar Ansari, Raja Bhaiya and Pappu Yadav from Uttar Pradesh. He threatened to eliminate my cousin Sudeep and me and disconnected the call. A minute later he said he knew I was in Panchkula and he was aware of my location and car movements. He made a third call and identified himself as Agrim,” read the complaint.

The life threatening calls were made on his official landline at Sector 6 house here between 9:50 am and 10:20 am on April 1.

According to the FIR, the suspect threatened to eliminate Surjewala and his brother Sudeep and then disconnected the call.

The caller claimed that he was aware of Surjewala’s location in Panchkula and had complete details of movement, vehicles and residential addresses of him and his brother.

Surjewala received another call from the same number at around 10:15 am and the caller extended the same threat and this time identified himself as Agrim.

The Congress leader apprised the police that he had earlier too received such threatening calls and letters on behalf of Surinder Geong.

Accordingly, Surjewala had approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court, asking for his personal security in 2016. The court had granted him ‘Y’ category security through a central agency.

The police have registered a case under Section 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code against unidentified persons at Sector 5 police station.

Inspector Karambir Singh, in-charge Sector 19 crime branch, said the investigation into the matter is on. However, the police was yet to find any leads in the case.