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JNU student leader Umar Khalid receives death threat, files FIR

| Saturday | 9th June, 2018

JNU student leader Umar Khalid has filed a complaint with the Delhi Police that he and Gujarat`s Independent MLA Jignesh Mevani had received death threats from a man who identified himself as fugitive gangster Ravi Pujari, says a report

Khalid tweeted he has asked for police protection, "Filed a complaint with @DelhiPolice regarding Ravi Pujari`s death threat to Jignesh and me. He said that I am on his HIT LIST! I have asked for police protection, given the fact that this is the same person who had previously also issued similar threats of killing me in Feb 2016"

Filed a complaint with @DelhiPolice regarding Ravi Pujari`s death threat to Jignesh and me. He said that I am on his HIT LIST! I have asked for police protection, given the fact that this is the same person who had previously also issued similar threats of killing me in Feb 2016.
— Umar Khalid (@UmarKhalidJNU) June 8, 2018

Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani too tweeted about the threat call, "Day 3, threat call continues from Ravi Pujari. Today again I received a threat call on my original number from a person introducing himself as Ravi Pujari frm Australia and also sent a text saying - "stop giving provocative speeches or will shot you. Umar Khalid is also in list"

Day 3, threat call continues from Ravi Pujari. Today again I received a threat call on my original number from a person introducing himself as Ravi Pujari frm Australia and also sent a text saying - "stop giving provocative speeches or will shot you. Umar Khalid is also in list"
— Jignesh Mevani (@jigneshmevani80) June 8, 2018

In 2016, Khalid`s father Syed Qasim Illyas Rasool had filed a police complaint, claiming he received a phone call "threatening to kill" his son if he doesn`t leave the country.

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