The Delhi Police has arrested a Mumbai-based 28-year-old delivery boy who had sent multiple threats to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over email. Police said the accused was not satisfied with his job and his life, and wanted to do something big to draw the attention of people towards him.
The accused has been identified as Abhishek Tiwari , a resident of Unnao in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and was presently living in Nala Sopara area of Mumbai, since 2016. Police said the accused used to work as a delivery boy with a furniture foam distributor in Mumbai.
"Tiwari had sent two e-mails to Kejriwal in the last week of July. He thought that the mails might have gone unnoticed. In order to gain prominence, he sent a bomb threat mail to the headquarters of the Indian National Congress," said a senior police official.
According to Anyesh Roy, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Cyber Crime Unit (CyPAD), in July, a complaint was received at CyPAD from the office of Delhi CM regarding threatening emails in which the sender was giving life threats. "Acting on the
complaint technical enquiry into the threat email was
started by CyPAD Unit and a case under relevant sections of law was registered in Special Cell police station," said the DCP.
"During investigation, based on technical analysis of inputs collected regarding origin of e-mail, connected mobile phone and IP logs, teams were rushed to Mumbai and Kanpur (UP) for locating the suspected user of the relevant email id," said the DCP.
"The suspect, however, had gone underground and was leaving very few digital footprints. With deep analysis of technical inputs, his location was zeroed to Nala Sopara, Mumbai, a densely populated and low-lying area. The team in Mumbai searched through hundreds of Chawls till the accused was finally nabbed from a Chawl in Nala Sopara," said the DCP.
"The first such mail was sent to a local municipal office bearer of a major political party in Mumbai. Disappointed with the lukewarm response, he upped the ante and decided to send threat mails to senior political leaders, the DCP said.
"First, he sent threatening mails to CM Delhi. Ignorant about the fact that police is on his trail, he sent another threatening mail of an impending bomb blast to a national political party's Headquarters in New Delhi. His luck ran out when team of Cyber Cell caught hold of him," said the DCP.
"The accused has been arrested and is being interrogated. The mobile phone used by the accused to send the emails has been recovered and subjected to cyber forensic analysis," the DCP added.