Vineet Maurya, a Buddhist petitioner in the Ayodhya title suit case, on Wednesday claimed that he had received death threats.
Police was investigating the matter after Mr. Maurya filed a complaint at the Ram Janmabhooomi police station, near the disputed site in the Uttar Pradesh town.
In his complaint, Mr. Maurya alleged that he a had received death threats from an anonymous mobile number. The caller also had allegedly insulted his family.
"He said that 3,000 Shiv sainiks have come from Mumbai and are looking for me," said Mr. Maurya in his police complaint.
Station House Officer Ram Janmabhooomi police station S.K. Yadav confirmed that he received a complaint from Mr. Yadav. However, an FIR was yet to be lodged. "We are still probing the matter," said Mr. Yadav.
A Buddhist activist from Ayodhya, Mr. Maurya had earlier this year petitioned the Supreme Court pleading that the disputed site be declared a Buddhist Vihar, as an archaeological site of national importance under sections 3 and 4 of the ASI Act. He had been campaigning for restoring the Buddhist heritage of Ayodhya for many years and argued that the disputed site housed a Buddhist structure.
The apex court tagged his plea and agreed to hear it along with the other appeals pending before it against the 2010 Allahabad High Court judgement.
Mr. Maurya's counsel K.K. Gautam said the basis for the claim were the 2010 judgment and the excavation reports of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
Mr. Gautam said the HC noted that there was a temple at the site’’but which temple it did not define.’’