WFI’s Sanjay Singh claims unidentified caller threatened to kill him, Brij

Varanasi: Police have registered a case after an unidentified person allegedly issued a death threat to the president of the suspended Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), Sanjay Singh, and his predecessor and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over the phone, an official said on Sunday.

A complaint was received from Sanjay Singh that on January 13, a person had called from an unidentified number and threatened to kill them, SHO of Bhelupur police station Vijay Kumar Shukla told news agency. A case has been registered under sections 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 507 (criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication) of the IPC, he said.

According to the police, Sanjay Singh has said in his complaint that on the night of January 12, someone had called twice on his mobile phone from an unfamiliar number but he did not pick up.

On January 13, calls started coming again from the same number. The third time he received the call following which the caller abused Kaiserganj BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and threatened to kill them.

Sanjay Singh said he disconnected phone out of fear. But he and his entire family are frightened by the continuous calls coming from that number, according to the complaint. Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has been at the centre of a row after several prominent women wrestlers

accused him of sexual harassment and started an agitation in January 2023 seeking action against him.