An interview of Bahrain-based underworld don Ali Budesh aired by an electronic channel, pointed that ganglord Dawood Ibrahim was behind the recent threats to BJP MlAs and some other prominent leaders.
Sources said that during a telephonic interview with Budesh, the ganglord said that the threats to BJP MlA on their Whattsapp was orchestrated by ganglord Dawood Ibrahim, through his trusted aide Choota Shakeel.
Budesh, who is operating separately from Bahrain after parting ways with Dawood, claimed over phone that he was aware that some one using his name for making extortion calls to leaders in UP, Mumbai, Delhi etc. He claimed that it was Dawood’s move to defame him.
Earlier, the threat ,messages sent o the UP legislators showed Ali Budhes as the sender and the messages were forwarded from a landline number from Texas (USA).
Meanwhile, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by IG (STF) Amitabh Yadav is reportedly in contact with different Intelligence agencies with reagrd to threats to the MlAs. DGP, OP Singh, who was in Bareilly, claimed that the case would be worked out soon.
“The UP Police is in contact with different Intelligence agencies, besides Intelligence Bureau, and work was in progress in this regard,” the the DGP told media persons in Bareilly.
“There is no need to panic... It (threat call) is not just to the state’s MlAs, but also to eminent personalities elsewhere, who are not public representatives. They, too, are getting such messages,” Singh said.
On Thursday, a top cop had suspected the episode to be the handiwork of ‘professional hackers’ using a proxy server to create panic. Over 22 legislators, most from the ruling BJP, got threats over SMS or WhatsApp, asking them to pay Rs 10 lakh or be ready for the eliminations of their kin.