Rajasthan CM Bhajan Lal Sharma gets death threat; call traced to Dausa jail

A prisoner from Dausa's Salaswal jail in Rajasthan on Friday night allegedly threatened to kill chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, police said. One 29-year-old Rinku, imprisoned for life in a rape case, called the Jaipur police control room and threatened to kill the CM.

The location of the mobile phone, which was used to make the threat call, was traced back to the Salaswas jail. Police said that after a four hour-long intense search operation in at jail premises from 3 am to 7 am, the phone was recovered. While the motive behind the death threat remained unclear, police officials said that they were further investigating the matter.

In July 2024, a prisoner from the Dausa central jail had threatened to kill CM Sharma. Previously in January that year, a POCSO convict from the Jaipur central jail had also called the Jaipur police control room and threatened to shoot Sharma.