Daijiworld Media Network - Karwar (SP) 

Karwar, Apr 23: In a complaint filed in the market police station at Sirsi in the district, personal secretary of union minister, Anant Kumar Hegde, Suresh Shetty, alleged that a person, who had made telephonic call to the minister, had abused him and posed death threat. 

The complainant stated that an anonymous caller, whose phone number was showed as +404, called the minister over cellphone at 2.17 am on Sunday. As the minister was asleep, this call was not received. At 2.20 am, the land line in the minister's home got a call from Number 0040440000. Minister's wife, Shreeroopa, received the call. The caller, who spoke in Hindi, wanted to know the identity of the person who picked the call, and cut the call on getting the response. 

When the same person called the land line at the minister's home again, the minister received the call. Before Hegde could speak, the caller realized that the minister was on line, and derided Hegde with derogatory words and also threatened to kill the minister, Shetty explained in the complaint. In his complaint, Shetty said that minister, Anant Kumar Hegde, has been receiving calls posing threat to life often, and has requested the police to investigate the incident and take appropriate action.