Asked why he was being targeted, Azmi said, “I don’t think it’s only me and this is not the first threat call I have received. A month back I received a call that I’d been asked not to represent the blast accused and was still doing so and that I should not or it will not be good. On Tuesday too the caller told me that lawyers in this case and the 1993 blasts case are being targeted.”

In his police complaint, Azmi said the anonymous caller told him his movements were monitored round the clock and that he would be killed either at his Kurla residence or office, or at his lawyer’s chamber at Fort. He also said that the youth who has been asked to carry out Pujari’s orders to have him bumped off had visited his residence to confirm his address.

“After the phone call I inquired with my brother who was home and he said a youth had come asking if I lived there. Today, I was being followed through out the day,” Azmi said.