Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani (Mukesh AmbaniMajor action has been taken by the Mumbai Police in the case of e-mail threat of shooting if the recently received Rs 20 crore is not paid. Police have arrested two people in the case. One of the arrested accused is a resident of Gujarat and the other from Telangana. Both are college students. Police said that the matter appears to be mischief between the two students. Police claimed that Rajveer Singh Khant (21) of Gujarat is the main accused. He used the email ID between October 27 and November 1. ShadabKhan@fencemail.com virtual private network (vpnSent five mails using ). Rajveer Singh Khant initially demanded Rs 20 crore and later when the industrialist did not respond to his mail, he increased the demand to Rs 400 crore. Police said the second student, identified as Ganesh R Vanaparthy (19) from Telangana, sent a mail – the sixth threat mail in this case – from his email ID after reading reports of the threat mail in the media. Was. He demanded Rs 500 crore.
Accused sent to judicial custody
After being caught by Gamdevi police, Ganesh R Vanaparthy was produced in the court and sent to police custody till 8 November. Whereas, Rajveer Singh Khant was arrested by Mumbai Crime Branch. The crime branch has seized Khant’s desktop and two mobile phones used in the crime. A police officer told in the case that Rajveer Singh Khant was confident that he would not be caught and he tried to challenge the investigating agencies. He went to the dark web to get information and searched at least 650 websites for about a week before creating an ID in the name of ‘Shadab Khan’. After this, a complete plan was made and emailed. Police said that Rajveer Singh Khant is fond of internet. He was traced with the help of a digital footprint left without his knowledge. An official said that he had used Proton Mail (end-to-end encrypted email service and Mailfence (secured and encrypted email service)) to send the threats. He used a virtual private network (VPN), which exposed an IP address in Belgium.
A case of extortion and criminal intimidation has been registered
Mumbai Police Joint CP (Crime) Lakhmi Gautam said the Mumbai Crime Branch team with the assistance of 3 cyber police units and selected officials of the Central Intelligence Unit investigated the VPN details of the mail and tracked down Khant. He was picked up from his home in the early hours of Saturday and brought to Mumbai. The police officer said that when he was caught, we found him surfing the internet at 3 in the morning. The teenager arrested by Gamdevi police is not the main accused. Gamdevi police had registered a case on October 27 based on the complaint of Mukesh Ambani’s security in-charge Devendra Munshiram. A case of extortion and criminal intimidation has been registered against the accused.
Mukesh Ambani had received threats last year also
Let us discuss here that Mukesh Ambani had also received death threats last year, after which the police investigated the matter. Then a person had called Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital in South Mumbai and said that he would blow up the hospital and also kill Mukesh Ambani, Nita Ambani and both his sons. Along with this, the accused had also threatened to blow up Ambani’s house Antilita with a bomb, which created a stir. If you remember, in the year 2021 also, a car filled with explosives was found near Mukesh Ambani’s house, after which the police were left helpless. Police found 20 gelatin sticks and a letter from the car, in which a threat was written to the Ambani family. After this the police investigated the matter and arrested some people.