Bihar minister receives murder threat

PATNA - Bihar Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) minister Ashwini Kumar Chaubey has been threatened that he and his family would be killed, police said Tuesday.

“I received a threat call on my personal mobile phone late Monday. Soon after that I informed the police,” Chaubey said.

Chaubey, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader who represents Bhagalpur constituency in the Bihar assembly, said the unidentified man threatened him thrice.

A police officer said an investigation was on.