BJP’s Nishikant Dubey withdraws death threat case after probe finds ‘conspiracy to frame’ Muslims

Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey said on Wednesday that he has withdrawn a case filed in 2018 pertaining to him allegedly having received death threats.

In July 2018, the Delhi Police had filed the case based on a complaint by the Godda MP, who had alleged that a prisoner in Jharkhand’s Sahibganj jail had threatened to kill him, according to The New Indian Express.

On Wednesday, Dubey said on social media that the investigation into the case had found that a resident of Godda district’s Kumardih village, Kundan Kumar Das, had threatened him and “conspired to frame some Muslim boys” in the case.

According to the MP, the mobile that was used to call him had been bought using the name Muhammad Gulfam.

Dubey said that he personally appeared before the Delhi High Court on Wednesday and requested the bench to dismiss the case. “The honourable High Court cancelled the case with a fine of Rs 10,000 and an order that such an incident should not be repeated in the future,” he said.

Dubey had claimed in 2018 that the person who called to threaten him had abused him for bearing the legal expenses of four men accused of lynching two persons on suspicion of cattle theft in Godda days earlier.

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