Mangaluru: Security had been stepped up for Karnataka Sports and Fisheries Minister K. Abhaychandra Jain a day after he received a threat to his life from a person claiming to be a gangster, police said on Sunday.

"We have deployed additional personnel at Jain's residence and office besides providing more security men after he filed a complaint about the threat call on his mobile phone on Saturday," Mangaluru Police Commissioner S. Murugan told IANS.