Vadodara: A day after Waghodia BJP MLA Madhu Srivastava threatened a local journalist, city police commissioner Shamsher Singh has ordered an inquiry into the incident. Singh on Tuesday asked the detection of crime branch (DCB) to investigate the matter and submit a report.
“I have asked the crime branch to collect all the evidence and the video of the incident from the journalist. Further action will be decided on the basis of the evidence,” Singh told TOI. A group of local journalists met Singh on Tuesday and urged him to act against Srivastava who had allegedly threatened Amit Thakor on Monday.
Thakor, who works for a local news channel, said that he was covering the candidates who were filing nominations for the upcoming civic polls in the city on Monday. “When I asked Srivastava a couple of questions about his son’s candidature for the polls, he got angry. He threatened to kill me and there is video evidence of it,” Thakor said.
He added that Srivastava holds influence and hence there is threat to his life. The journalists, who met Singh, urged him to file a complaint against Srivastava.
Srivastava has been accused of threatening journalists in the past too. His son Dipak Srivastava had planned to contest as an independent candidate in the civic polls after the BJP didn’t give him a ticket. But Dipak’s candidature wasn’t accepted as he is father of three children and rules disqualify candidates who have more than two children.