Mumbai: Mumbai police on Monday arrested a man for allegedly making threat calls to chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Ltd Mukesh Ambani and his household. A police official stated that more than one calls had been made on the exhibit alternative of the smartly being facility giving lifestyles threats to Mr Ambani by an unknown person.
In step with studies, the suspect has been is named Vishnu Vibhu Bhowmik (56) who made nine calls on a landline alternative of the Reliance Foundation Wisely being facility between 10.30am and 12 noon. He reportedly claimed his name as Afzal and threatened to execute Mr Ambani within three hours. Bhowmik owns a jewelry store in South Mumbai
The smartly being facility representatives immediately reported the matter on the D.B. Marg police narrate and also handed over the recordings of the telephone calls. After scrutinising the call facts, the police detained the suspect from Dahisar.
“Total of nine calls had been made giving lifestyles threats to Mr Ambani by an unknown person. Now we possess complained to Mumbai police to leer into the matter,” an official from the smartly being facility stated.
A police officer stated that Bhowmik made the first call at 10.39am. He abused the actual individual that got the call and commenced giving loss of life threats to Mr Ambani.
When the police started the investigation, they realised that the caller had made all calls from the same cell telephone, which later grew to become out to be Bhowmik’s possess number. The police also traced the cell telephone put to Bhowmik’s put at Borivali (West) from where he become detained.
Deputy commissioner of police Neelotpal stated, “The accused had got the number from some public portal. In one among his telephone calls, he also talked about the name of Unhurried Dheerubhai Ambani,.He become detained from Borivali (West) and dropped on the D B Marg police. Now we possess booked him underneath part 506 (II) (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.”
Bhowmik may possibly be produced earlier than a court docket on Tuesday. The police are but to examine the motive within the support of his calls. The 56-year-old, who hails from Tripura, has been living in Mumbai for the closing 26 years with his wife and two kids.
While hearing a PIL in June this year, Tripura excessive court docket had directed the Centre asking it to position on anecdote the files associated to threat perception and evaluate of Mr Ambani and his household. The Supreme Court docket stayed the excessive court docket’s dispute after the Centre challenged it on the ground that the protection equipped to Mr Ambani and his household had nothing to attain with the Tripura authorities and the excessive court docket did not possess the jurisdiction to entertain the kind of PIL.
Some central agencies possess also sought facts of the threat calls, the police stated.
Mr Ambani become equipped Z-plus security quilt by the Centre in 2013 in maintaining with the threat perception. He become the first non-public person to receive such VIP security from the authorities. After objections raised over the switch, the authorities had also clarified that Mr Ambani become going to pay for his security. The Centre also equipped Y-plus category security quilt to Neeta Ambani in 2016.
Earlier in 2021, a car containing 20 gelignite sticks become chanced on outside the put of Mukesh Ambani in Mumbai. The investigation of that case become before the total lot given to a Mumbai police crime department unit headed by assistant police inspector Sachin Waze. Few days later, one among the suspects within the case, Mansukh Hiren, become chanced on murdered. The then Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities within the narrate directed the narrate Anti Terrorist Squad to investigate Hiren’s loss of life.
On the opposite hand, the Nationwide Investigation Agency because of the this truth took over the investigation in both the conditions and arrested a few law enforcement officials including Waze, who become the initial investigating officer.
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