Senior citizen arrested for sending threat mail to BMRCL

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A record  photograph  of the passengers astatine  a metro station.

A record photograph of the passengers astatine a metro station.

The Wilson Garden constabulary connected Tuesday arrested a 62-year-old antheral for allegedly sending menace mails to BMRCL officials threatening to stroke up a metro station.

Based connected a ailment filed by Rathish Thomas, 50, Assistant Executive Engineer (Cybersecurity), BMRCL recently, the constabulary tracked down the accused done the IP code and arrested Rajiv from his location successful Belthur adjacent Kadugodi.

A probe revealed that the accused is an unemployed diploma holder suffering from a intelligence upset and was taking attraction for 5 years. It besides revealed that helium was divorced 15 years ago. He was surviving unsocial successful a rented country and his household members, friends and relatives were helping him with each time essentials.

The constabulary had registered the FIR connected November 15, pursuing support from a metropolis court. They had archetypal registered a non-cognisable study (NCR) pursuing a ailment connected November 14 by BMRCL.

According to the FIR, connected November 13 astatine 11.25 p.m. the authoritative email of BMRCL received a message and the accused threatened to stroke up a metro presumption if his ex-wife was “tortured by metro employees aft work hours.”

The menace was declared a hoax by the constabulary and an probe was launched aft the lawsuit was booked nether Section 351 (criminal intimidation) of the BNS.

According to the police, the accused had a printing property that unopen down years agone owed to losses. He doesn’t person immoderate children and since the separation, helium stayed alone. Contrary to what was suggested successful the email, his woman didn’t enactment astatine BMRCL. When his telephone was checked, astir 50 random email addresses, immoderate of quality channels and newspapers, of the constabulary and politicians, were recovered. All those person been blocked, a constabulary serviceman said.

Published - November 18, 2025 09:00 p.m. IST

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