Mumbai Police on Saturday arrested a man for sending death threats to Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut. The man also threatened Raut to kill him like Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala, who was shot dead last year.

The accused, identified as Rahul Talekar, was apprehended by the Pune and Mumbai Police from the Kharadi area, hours after Raut and his brother MLA Sunil Raut filed a threat complaint at the Kanjurmarg Police Station.

During the interrogation, Talekar, who has no criminal records, claimed that he sent threatening messages when he was drunk. Considering the prima facie, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said he might have issued the threat under the influence of alcohol and assured people that strict action will be taken against him.

The Mumbai Police have booked Talekar under Section 506-II (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.

Talekar, originally from Jalna, called Raut Hindu virodhi in a WhatsApp threat message. He wrote, Delhi me mil tu ak 47 se uda dunga. Moosewala type. Lawrence ke or se msg he soch ke… Salman aur tu Fix. Tyatil karke rakhna (sic).

Talekar threatened Raut to kill him with AK-47 in Delhi, just like Sidhu Moose Wala. He also threatened to kill Bollywood superstar Salman Khan. Police suspect the name Lawrence in the message refers to gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.

Rahul Talekar runs an eatery in Pune. According to the police, he sent the abusive threat message to Raut over WhatsApp on Friday after failing to reach the MP over the phone. The police said Rahul Talekar had learned about Bishnoi from social media and thought he could his name to send the threatening message to Sanjay Raut.

For the unversed, Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala was shot dead last year in May in the Mansa district of Punjab. Jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and Goldy Brar, a member of the Bishnoi gang, claimed responsibility for the murder.

A few days later, the Bishnoi gang also sent a threat letter to Salman Khan for killing their sacred animal blackbuck during the shooting of the film in 1998. The city police are already probing the Salman Khan threat case and Talekar will be questioned in connection with that too, the official added.

Delhi airport on Saturday declared a full emergency after the Dubai-bound FedEx aircraft suffered a bird hit soon after the take-off. The incident happened at around 10:46 am on Saturday.

The FedEx aircraft no FX5279 had to make an emergency landing at the Delhi airport after it was hit by a bird. The Dubai-bound flight landed safely and took off again at 1:44 pm, said reports. The scheduled arrival of the flight in Dubai is at 3.29 pm. 

The full emergency was announced at the airport so that the technicians could check the plane for any technical glitch before the clearance.

Directorate General of Civil Aviation in a statement said the cargo flight was involved in an air turnback due to a suspected bird hit at 1000 ft today. Delhi airport (DIAL) declared an emergency. Aircraft landed back safely. After inspection, it has been released for flight, he said.

Bird-hit accidents, according to reports, are not uncommon, but they present significant technical problems and can be quite dangerous.

Earlier, as similar bird hit incident happened in February when an IndiGo flight from Surat to Delhi had to be diverted to Ahmedabad after it suffered a bird strike during takeoff.

Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the widespread violence in the state during Ram Navami. Irani accused the West Bengal CM of giving clean chit to the accused who disrupted the Ram Navami celebrations in the state.

Irani in her statement said that the organisers of the Ram Navami procession asked for permission for the procession to happen. The Union Minister of Child and Woman development further said that a request was also sought for protection as a 100-meter stretch was likely to be attacked by stone pelting.

Union Minister Smriti Irani said that despite of the appeal of protection by the people taking out the Ram Navami procession, the administration failed to provide protection. Irani further said and claimed that the West Bengal Government protected those who took law into their own hands, as well as, the ones who attacked the procession by pelting stones.

She further lambasted the Chief Minister of West Bengal and slammed her for targeting the ones who took out the procession during Ram Navami instead of the real culprits. The Union Minister, in her scathing attack on the West Bengal Government, also accused WB CM of giving a clean chit to the real culprits

Irani in her statement also added and said that this is not the first time where people of the Hindu community were attacked and raked up previous accounts of people getting attacked last year during Lakshmi Puja.

BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar also wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah seeking an intervention of Central forces to stop the repression in Howrah. The BJP MP has sought NIA’s probe into the cause of the riot.

Parts of West Bengal saw violence on the occasion of Ram Navami. Following the violence, the West Bengal government gave the investigation over to Criminal Investigation Department (CID). As per the reports, the inspector General of CID, Sunil Choudhury has initiated the investigation into the case.