Madhuri Dixit receives threat messages from a waiter
In order to extort money, a 23-year-old man sent threat messages to Madhuri Dixit.
A waiter by profession, Praveenkumar Pradhan threated to kill the actors’ children and claimed that he has links with the underworld. The police arrested him yesterday. The police yesterday recovered the phone, which he used to send the offensive texts.
A senior inspector at the Cyber Police Station in Bandra said, “The accused was today produced before a court which remanded him in police custody till tomorrow.”
Madhuri’s personal assistant approached the cyber cell alleging the actor had received threatening messages on her cell phone from an unknown person at 3am on November 25.
A police officer said, “The messages were addressed to Madhuri Dixit and the sender threatened to kill her children.”
In the next three days, the actor received more text messages.
“In one of the messages, Pradhan claimed he was associated with the gang of underworld don Chhota Rajan. The accused said he had trained a 15-year-old boy in handling weapons and bombs and this teenager would barge into Dixit’s home to extort money,” said the officer, who did not wish to be named.
Pradhan was picked up for questioning after the leads collected were against him. Pradhan later confessed to the crime.
When he was interrogated, the confessed that he would have demanded the exact amount if either Madhuri or her PA would have personally contacted him, police said.
Police said that the accused had made threatening calls to other film personalities and the probe was on whether he was associated with any criminal gang or those were just brags about his influence.
