New Delhi: June 08, 2007 -  After declaring Y security to Indian Wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni by the Chhattisgarh Government, Maoist guerrillas denied issuing death threats to Indian wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni or any other cricketer or Board Member.

"No such threat to the life of cricketers has been issued by Maoists," stated a press released signed by Agni, spokesperson of the Communist Party of India-Maoist's (CPI-Maoist) North Bihar-Uttar Pradesh-Uttarakhand Special Area Committee.

He described the widely circulated reports - based on a letter alleged to have been written by Maoists in Chhattisgarh - as a fraud by the state's police to defame Maoists and paint them as "mindless killers".

The story was planted to alienate the Maoists from "toiling people and a large section of lower middle class people" who are cricket lovers.