Mysuru: Security to Primary and Secondary Education Minister Tanveer Sait has been increased with two additional Policemen posted at his house on M.G. Road in Udyagiri, in city. This measure follows, after Sait complained receiving threat calls by underworld don Ravi Poojary.

DCP N. Vishnuvardhana told SOM here this morning that there was a gunman posted at Sait’s house earlier. However, after the threat to the Minister and his complaint regarding it, two more security staff had been stationed from day-before-yesterday and they would be guarding the house round the clock.

Sait said that he had received threat calls, SMS message on his mobile phone and through the internet demanding a ransom of Rs.10 crore and if he did not pay, he had to pay with his life.

He wrote to the Chief Minister Siddharamaiah and Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy about the threat calls and SMS messages.

City Police Commissioner Dr. A. Subrahmanyeswara Rao told the Media that security had been increased as per the instructions from higher authorities. Even in his Bengaluru residence, the security has been tightened.

Sait told SOM that this was not related to any communal politics but the threat had come from the underworld. “In the beginning I received four messages mentioning that he was a close aide of Ravi Poojary and demanded Rs.10 crore. Later, Ravi Poojary himself had called me on the phone,” he said.

Sait said that he had not developed personal enmity with anyone. “This is the first time I received such a threat and was surprised. However, I do not feel threatened at all. Truth will come out after investigation,” he said.

Asked whether such threats could lead to communal violence, Sait said that they were not related and he had never encouraged such developments, as he was not against any community and he loved everyone.