Gyanvapi judge complains of 'malicious calls, death threats from international numbers’: Report
TOI reported. After the Gyanvapi judgment, Judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar had received a hand-written threat letter, after which nine police personnel were deployed. The Allahabad High Court had sanctioned Y-category security for the judge and his family after he raised similar concerns, which was later downgraded to X-category.
Considering the additional sessions judge's present security arrangement, two security personnel have been deployed to oversea the safety of his family. One of the aides noted that this security arrangement is inadequate citing lack of weapons in possession of the security personnel. Meanwhile, terrorists are armed with automatic guns and modern weaponry, TOI report stated.
Last year, a Popular Front of India (PFI) agent was arrested from the vicinity of Ravi Kumar Diwakar's residence in Lucknow. Following the incidence, a gunner was stationed by Shahjahanpur SSP Ashok Kumar Meena at the residence of Justice Diwakar's brother, Dinesh Kumar Diwakar, who is also an additional district judge. The security cover was later pulled out in the wake if Lok Sabha elections.
The Gyanvapi judge was recently transferred to Bareilly, had summoned senior cleric Tauqeer Raza to face trial for being the alleged mastermind in the Bareilly riots case of 2018. He had initiated suo motu cognizance in the case. Milestone Alert!
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