Jharkhand Director General of Police J B Mahapatra today denied reports
that cricket star Mahendra Singh Dhoni faced any naxal threat.
"There is no danger or threat to Dhoni," said Jharkhand's top
police officer.
Mahapatra was responding to a query as to whether Dhoni had
become a target of naxalites as published in a national English daily here today.
According to the report published in the daily, Jharkhand police
were probing the authenticity of a letter that stated a joint group of naxalites
from Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh intended to eliminate Team India skipper Rahul Dravid and three Indian Cricket Board officials -- Sharad Pawar,
Niranjan Shah and Rajiv Shukla, besides Dhoni.
The letter, the report further claimed, was found during a
raid on a naxalite hideout in Dantewada region in neighbouring Chhattisgarh
on friday.
"We don't know anything about it," the DGP told PTI
when asked whether any such letter was being investigated by the Jharkhand police.
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