Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta.
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The Ghaziabad police have received a PCR call from a person threatening to kill Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, an officer said on Friday (June 6, 2025).

“The caller said the Delhi CM will be killed; following which the Ghaziabad police alerted the Delhi police’s North-West district control room under whose supervision the CM’s present residence in Shalimar Bagh lies,” Ritesh Tripathi, the Assistant Commissioner of Police Ghaziabad (Kotwali), told The Hindu.

“We received a call from the Ghaziabad police on Thursday night alerting us about the death threat call,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (North-West) Bhisham Singh.

Sharing the details, the Ghaziabad ACP said the call was received around 11 p.m., and through technical surveillance, the police have been able to trace the caller’s location to Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. However, the accused caller switched off his mobile phone soon after making the threat call, he added.

A senior Delhi police officer said call records of the accused indicate that he is a “habitual caller”. “The accused has called the [Ghaziabad] police control room 50 to 60 times in the past few months. We have found his details and will soon nab him,” said the officer.

The officer said the Delhi police and the Ghaziabad police are collaborating to apprehend the accused.

The accused caller’s identity was not disclosed by the Delhi police and the Ghaziabad police.

CM’s security on alert

Since the threat call, the Delhi CM’s personal security and the security at her Shalimar Bagh residence have been alerted, an officer said.

Ms. Gupta has a Z-category security cover since she assumed the CM’s post in February. Under this category, her personal security comprises at least 22 personnel, escorts, surveillance staff and eight static armed guards.

Meanwhile, unhindered by the threat call, Ms. Gupta went about her day’s engagements and visited the landfill in Okhla, met with the heads of several schools in Shalimar Bagh, and held meetings with bureaucrats.

In March, Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma and Deputy Chief Minister Prem Chand Bairwa received death threat calls, leading to the arrest of three persons.