Madhuri
Dixit
and
her
family
have
received
death
threats
from
underworld
goon,
Chhota
Rajan.
From
past
few
days,
the
actress
has
been
getting
messages
from
an
unidentified
person
claiming
to
have
links
with
underworld.
Police
have
now
identified
the
accused
as
Praveen
Kumar
Kamaleshwar
Pradhan,
23,
who
works
at
a
Udupi
hotel
in
Mumbai
but
belongs
to
Chhattisgarh.
Madhuri's
assistant
registered
a
complaint
with
the
cyber
cell
of
Mumbai
Police
by
on
November
28
alleging
that
the
actress
received
four
threatening
text
messages
on
her
mobile
phone
from
an
unidentified
person
around
3
am
on
November
25.
The
police
immediately
got
into
investigation
and
arrested
the
accused,
waiter
Praveen.
During
interrogation,
the
accused
He
admitted
that
he
was
the
one
who
was
sending
threatening
messages
to
the
actress
in
order
to
extort
money
from
her.
Sunil
Ghosalkar,
Senior
Inspector
at
Cyber
Police
Station
said,
"The
accused
was
today
produced
before
a
court
which
remanded
him
in
police
custody
till
tomorrow."
Another
officer
from
the
same
brach
said,
"The
messages
were
addressed
to
Madhuri
Dixit
and
the
sender
threatened
to
kill
her
children," said
another
officer.
More
threat
messages
were
sent
on
Madhuri's
phone
in
the
next
three
days.
"In
one
of
the
messages,
Pradhan
claimed
he
was
associated
with
the
gang
of
underworld
don
Chhota
Rajan.
The
accused
said
he
had
trained
a
15-year-old
boy
in
handling
weapons
and
bombs
and
this
teenager
would
barge
into
Dixit's
home
to
extort
money,"
said
the
officer.
Pradhan
during
police
interrogation
confessed
committing
the
crime.