The person who was allegedly writing threat letters to several writers in the State from April 2022 has finally been arrested.
Sleuths of the Central Crime Branch (CCB), which has been entrusted with the probe into the case recently, arrested Shivaji Rao Jadhav, 41, from Davanagere. The arrested is the co-convenor of a Hindutva outfit for the Davanagere district. A class 8 dropout, he works at a printing press. He has two previous cases, including a molestation case and a preventive arrest.
“We have concrete evidence that it is the same individual who has written all the threat letters to writers,” B. Dayananda, Bengaluru City Police Commissioner, said. Sources said an earlier investigation, which zeroed in on the wrong person in May 2023, had mounted CCTV surveillance at many post boxes from which these threat letters were posted across four districts. The accused was identified from this surveillance footage, sources said.
