SRP Kalluri, Chhattisgarh’s controversial inspector-general of police, has threatened Hindustan Times’s Raipur-based journalist for seeking clarifications on academic Nandini Sundar’s alleged involvement in a tribal man’s murder in Bastar this month.

“Aap log aise karenge to hum aapko jaane hi nahi denge ..mere reference se aap gaye the…,” (If you all do like this, we will not let you visit …you went with my reference to Bastar),” an angry Kalluri told Ritesh Mishra.

Mishra had asked him for a comment after local residents in Bastar’s Nama village--where tribal man Samnath Baghel was killed--told HT that they had nothing against Sundar, who was booked for murder along with 10 others.