The Pune cyber cell officer on Tuesday received a call from an unknown caller who issued death threat to Mumbai's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare, TV channels reported.

Meanwhile, the NHRC has sought a report from the Maharashtra government on alleged custodial torture of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, who was arrested in connection with Malegaon blast.

The Commission sent notice to Maharashtra Chief Secretary Johny Joseph and Director General of Police A N Roy on Monday following a complaint about the alleged violation of human rights during the ATS custody of the accused and directed them to submit a factual report on it.

The Commission asked the officials to submit the report within two weeks, NHRC sources said.

38-year-old former ABVP activist Pragya was arrested by the Maharashtra ATS on October 23 for allegedly conspiring of exploding a bomb at Malegaon on September 29 in which six persons were killed and 101 others injured.

Thakur on Monday told Special MCOCA Judge Y D Shinde that she had been mentally and physically harassed by ATS.

"ATS officials threatened to strip me and hang me upside down if I did not confess about my involvement in the blast. I am mentally disturbed and not able to eat anything," Sadhvi told the judge.

Petition against ATS for picking a person illegally from MP

Indore, November 25, A habeas corpus petition has been filed in Madhya Pradesh High Court here alleging that the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) illegally picked up a person in the second week of this month from the city. The petition filed by Ramswaroop Patidhar on Monday stated that the ATS picked up his brother Dilip Patidhar, living in Shanti Vihar Colony, illegally on the intervening night of November 10 and 11 saying that he should be produced before the court. Patidhar was a tenant of Ramji - one of the alleged accused in the Malegaon bomb blasts - who is absconding. Advocate of Ramswaroop, Dipak Rawal said that Dilip was an electrician and his family members were anxious with his missing and had even tried to lodge complaint with the local Kajrana police station.

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