India: Journalist claims RSS, VHP threats after article on Sardar Patel

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Journalist claims RSS, VHP threats after article on Sardar Patel
Raj Shekhar, TNN Nov 1, 2013, 08.18AM IST

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NEW DELHI: Journalist Vidya Subrahmaniam has filed a police complaint claiming that she has received at least 250 calls from unknown numbers threatening to 'bomb' her for an article she had written on Sardar Patel. The police have registered a case under section 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC.

Subrahmaniam said the callers were largely from Tamil Nadu and they claimed affiliation to RSS and VHP. She said, "... the background to this is an article on the RSS which appeared today (October 15) in the Tamil edition of The Hindu. The original appeared in The Hindu in English on October 8, 2013 under the title: The forgotten promise of 1949."

With Congress using the issue to slam Narendra Modi, Subrahmaniam tweeted on Thursday evening that she did receive threats but never went to Congress with them.

A Delhi police team is likely to visit Tamil Nadu next week to trace the callers with the help of the local police . The call detail records and the complaints have already been shared with the Tamil Nadu Police, said a senior police officer.

On October 15, some alleged right wing activists had barged into the Coimbatore office of Subrahmaniam's newspaper and created a ruckus. They left after the editor spoke to them.