The Delhi Police’s Special Cell has registered an First Information Report (FIR) after a lawyer alleged that he is receiving threats by an unknown person of implicating him in a false case. Police said that the person threatening the lawyer was using Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana’s picture on WhatsApp and Truecaller.
A senior police official said that the FIR was registered under sections 419 (cheating by personation), 170 (personating a public servant), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 507 (criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Intelligence Fusion & Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit of Special Cell on May 25.
According to the FIR, the complainant, a Delhi based lawyer, Manjit Singh, through his email sent a complaint stating that he was receiving several phone calls from one unknown number threatening him of implicating in false cases and other consequences like uploading the videos on social media.
The caller was using a picture of the Delhi Police Commissioner, Rakesh Asthana on WhatsApp and Truecaller, police said.
In the complaint which was sent on the official e-mail of Delhi Police, Singh had also attached several screen shots of Whatsapp chat with the display profile picture of a senior Delhi Police officer, said the senior police official.
“During enquiry, a letter to obtain software defined radio (SDR) system and Call detail Record (CDR) of the alleged number has been sent. Now to unearth the complete motive and intention, a detailed investigation is being carried out,” said the senior police official adding that further investigation is going on.