Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister Tarun Bhanot on Saturday, 20 April, lodged a police complaint seeking action against BJP's Bhopal Lok Sabha candidate Pragya Singh Thakur for her remarks against former Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare.
Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, had earlier claimed Karkare died in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks as she had "cursed" him for "torturing" her.
Bhanot told news agency PTI he had filed the case with Bhopal’s Gorakhpur police station as a private citizen and not in the capacity of a state minister.