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A 22-year-old antheral has been arrested for impersonating his friend’s erstwhile spouse and sending threatening e-mails to Delhi and Bengaluru Commissioners of Police, an serviceman said connected Tuesday.
The accused was identified arsenic Abhay Shee, a autochthonal of Jharkhand. “The incidental came to airy connected December 7 erstwhile the Commissioner of Police, Delhi, received a threatening e-mail. The sender claimed affiliation with a banned organisation, shared his telephone number, and tried to extort money,” said Harsh Indora, DCP (Crime).
Another email to Bengaluru Commissioner of Police, besides falsely claimed affiliation with a banned organisation, and threatened weaponry blasts astatine assorted nationalist locations.
A threatening connection was besides received by the Rajasthan Police connected WhatsApp via an planetary number, successful which the sender threatened them with weaponry blasts.
When approached by the police, the idiosyncratic whose telephone fig was shared successful the e-mail, said helium had been implicated and that he, too, had been receiving threatening e-mails from the aforesaid address.
“It was recovered that respective fake cyber complaints of rape and execution were besides generated successful his name,” the DCP said.
The idiosyncratic besides told the constabulary that Mr. Shee had called him, threatening him if helium did not enactment distant from his friend. Mr. Shee was arrested from Saket connected Monday, and during interrogation, helium confessed to creating aggregate fake email IDs bearing his friend’s erstwhile partner’s sanction and sending threatening e-mails, the serviceman said.
“The motive down the accused’s actions was recovered to beryllium rivalry arising retired of online interactions involving a girl,” the DCP said.
