Bengaluru, Oct 16 (PTI) The Bengaluru police have arrested a man from Maharashtra who had allegedly called Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge on the phone and abused him with vile invective for writing a letter to the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to disallow RSS activities in public places.

An FIR was registered at Sadashivanagar Police Station following the threat call made while the minister was recording a video.

A joint operation by Bengaluru Central Division and Kalaburagi Police led to the arrest of the accused.

The man has been identified as Dhanesh Narone alias Danappa Narone, who hails from Solapur in Maharashtra, a district bordering Karnataka, police sources said.

After the phone call, he had fled his town and was hiding in Latur. The police team from Bengaluru and Kalaburagi

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