Varanasi : A civil judge (senior division) Ravi Kumar Diwakar has received a threat letter from an organisation Islamic Aghaz Movement for ordering the survey of Gyanvyapi mosque, official sources said on Wednesday.
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On the heels of the letter, the Uttar Pradesh government has beefed up the security of Diwakar, sources said. As soon as Diwakar received the letter through a registered post, he alerted the additional chief secretary (home), director general of police and commissioner of police, Varanasi.
Varanasi commissioner of police A Satish Ganesh said after being alerted by the civil judge about the letter containing many attachments, the deputy commissioner of police (Varuna zone) was asked to probe the matter.
He further said that the police were reviewing the security of the civil judge and his mother who lives in Lucknow, besides the security of the civil judge had been beefed up. In the letter, a man Kasif Ahmed Siddiqui, claiming to be the president of Islamic Aghaz Movement, said that “judges have also turned saffron amidst a divisive political scenario.”
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The letter also contains derogatory remarks against the Prime Minister and former Chief Justice of India. In one of his orders issued on May 12, the civil judge had stated, “An atmosphere of fear has been created in an ordinary civil case. My family and I are living under fear.”
