MUMBAI: Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Friday said she had filed a complaint with Byculla police station after receiving a threat letter. She told reporters that the letter, which was received at her old residence in Dadar, was replete with vulgar language with a threat of killing her family members.
She said that the letter mentioned one Vijendra Mhatre, adding that she has written to Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil demanding the arrest of the culprit/s and police protection for her family.
An official said an FIR has been registered against unidentified person under IPC sections 506 (2) and 509 at Byculla police station and teams have been sent to Uran, Kharghar and Panvel in Navi Mumbai and Raigad as part of the probe.
Walse Patil, later in the evening, tweeted that police has been directed to provide protection to Pednekar and her family, adding that the person who had issued the threat letter would be immediately traced and punished strictly.