Karwar: Union Minister Anantkumar Hegde on Sunday allegedly received a phone call on his landline from a man who threatened to kill him, said sources.

In this regard, the minister's personal assistant Suresh Shetty has filed a complaint with Sirsi police station. According to the complaint, an anonymous caller, whose phone number was showed as +404, called the minister over a cellphone at 2.17 AM on Sunday. As the minister was asleep, this call was not received. At 2.20 AM, the landline in the minister's home got a call from Number 0040440000. Minister's wife, Shreeroopa, received the call. The caller, who spoke in Hindi, wanted to know the identity of the person who picked the call and cut the call on getting the response. 

The same person called again, but Hegde received the call this time. Before Hegde could speak, the caller realized that the minister was on the line, and derided Hegde with derogatory words and also threatened to kill the minister, Shetty explained in the complaint.

In his complaint, Shetty also said that minister, Anant Kumar Hegde, has been receiving calls posing threat to life often, and has requested the police to investigate the incident and take appropriate action.