Shri Ram Sena founder Pramod Muthalik complains of death threats

Pramod Muthalik, the founder of Shri Ram Sena, has filed a complaint with the Hukkeri Police Station in Belagavi district of Karnataka saying that he has received death threats from unknown persons on November 4.

According to the First Information Report (FIR), he received five calls in the evening of November 3 and the morning of November 3. He claimed that the callers spoke a dialect of Urdu mixed with Kannada in a Mangaluru accent. He accused them of dividing the society on communal lines, spreading hatred against minorities and inciting youth to participate in violent activities against Muslims. They abused and threatened to tear me to pieces, he alleged.

“I got calls from five different numbers, but I got only two calls. The people at the other end spoke, but I did not respond. I only said ‘You stop speaking’ and hung up the call,” he told the police.

Mr. Mutalik told reporters in Hukkeri that he was not in danger from such callers. “This is not the first time I have received such calls. I get them regularly. I am being threatened like this for 15 years. I know barking dogs don’t bite. That’s why I don’t care about such people.” “The police have told me that an investigation will follow. I trust the police.”

“If anyone has any objection regarding my statements about the society, they should properly express their objection in the legal forum. They should not indulge in such cowardly acts. Whatever I have said about the society in all these years, it is according to the law and the constitution. I haven’t said anything beyond that. People are trying to find fault in me, but instead, they should introspect and try to lead a respectable life according to the law and stop the attempts to intimidate me,” Mr. Mutalik said.