India, Jan. 9 -- Independent candidate Tejal Pawar and her husband Deepak have been provided police cover as they apprehend a threat to their lives. Tejal, contesting the civic elections from ward 226 in Colaba, has alleged that speaker of the legislative assembly Rahul Narwekar (BJP) had offered them various inducements in exchange for withdrawing her nomination against his brother Makarand.

The idea, Tejal claimed, was to get Makarand Narwekar elected unopposed as she was the only candidate contesting against him.

"After she (Tejal) made allegations and asked for security, the Colaba police have provided her security. She has been assigned a woman bodyguard, and constables have been also posted outside her house in Colaba," said a sen...