Mumbai police arrest Telangana teen for sending threat mails to Mukesh Ambani
The business tycoon had last week received five emails where the sender demanded money from him and threatened to kill him
The Mumbai police on Saturday arrested a 19-year-old from Telangana for reportedly sending multiple threatening emails to industrialist Mukesh Ambani. The police identified the accused as Ganesh Ramesh Vanpardhi and said he has been remanded in police custody till November 8.
Ambani had last week received five emails where the sender demanded money from him and threatened to kill him, the police said. “It seems some teenagers did this as a part of their mischief. Our probe is on and we will try to get to the root of the matter,” said a senior Mumbai police official, confirming the development.
The first email allegedly sent on October 27 by one Shadab Khan reads, “If you (Ambani) don’t give us Rs 20 crore, we will kill you, we have the best shooters in India.” Subsequently, the Reliance Industries MD received another email, in which the sender alleged that as they had failed to act upon the first email, they wanted Rs 200 crore. “If the demands are not fulfilled, a death warrant will be issued (to Ambani),” the second email reads.
Later, it was reported that the extortionist had sent a third email to Ambani’s official email id demanding Rs 400 crore on Monday. He then received two more such emails, on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The police said they scrutinised the IP addresses of the emails and traced the accused to Telangana. The police are now trying to ascertain if more people were involved in the crime.