Man who wrote threat letter to Kannada liberal writers finally arrested
Sleuths of the Central Crime Branch (CCB), which has 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 Davanagere district. The accused is a class 8 drop out, unmarried and works at a printing press. He has two previous cases including a molestation case and a preventive arrest. His father works as a group D employee at the Davanagere City Municipal Corporation. 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 that 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 from, across four districts. The accused was identified from this surveillance footage, sources said. He has been arrested and taken into 13 days police custody. Several writers