Mumbai: Bandra police registered a non-cognisable (NC) offence on Friday against an unidentified person after the sister of NCP functionary and former MLA Zeeshan Siddique complained that she came across a death threat to him in an audio clip on a social media platform.Siddique’s family claimed that police recorded did not take the complaint seriously and recorded only an NC instead of an FIR as the threat was posted the same day a writ petition in the murder of her father, former Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Baba Siddique (66), was scheduled to be taken up at Bombay HC.The family also claimed that Zeeshan’s security cover was reduced to two cops from seven.The sister, Arshia, a doctor, told TOI on Friday: “It is shocking and scary as the threat message seems not to be taken lightly and it was deliberately done on the same day when the writ petition came up for hearing on Thursday after five months. I suspect that the threats are related to the builder against whom the writ petition has been filed related to my father’s murder.”Police said the threat clip was posted on social media in the name of a person claiming to be a gangster. “We were verifying the authenticity of the viral audio clip and the man who introduced himself as gangster Zeeshan Akhtar. We have also details of the internet protocol address from where it was uploaded,” said an officer.
