19-year-old scholar from Telangana held for sending menace mails to Mukesh Ambani | Mumbai Information

MUMBAI: A 19-year-old school scholar from Telangana has been arrested for allegedly sending a sequence of menace e-mails to Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani demanding ransom.

The person, recognized as Ganesh R Vanpardhi, hailing from Telangana, was situated by the Gamdevi police with the assistance of technical surveillance and subsequently taken to Mumbai on Saturday.

Vanpardhi was introduced earlier than the courtroom, and his custody has been prolonged till November 8.
“Vanpardhi is a scholar. The police are presently interrogating him to discern the underlying motive for his actions in sending a number of loss of life menace e-mails between October 27 and November 1,” mentioned a police officer.

“We’re inquiring about his utilization of the Digital Personal Community (VPN) and whether or not he obtained any help on this regard. The accused employed the VPN community to ship the emails, which have been initially traced again to Belgium. The entire mails have been despatched from a single electronic mail ID and contained ransom calls for,” police mentioned.
The emails have been despatched utilizing the identical alias, “Shadab Khan,” and police are presently working to find out when Vanpardhi created the e-mail ID, which he employed for sending these ominous messages.
To start with, the accused demanded a ransom of Rs 20 crore, which was subsequently raised to Rs 40 crore.
Later, extra threatening emails have been obtained, cautioning Mukesh Ambani about dire penalties if his earlier emails have been ignored and demanding a sum of Rs 400 crore, in accordance with the police.
Upon receiving a grievance from Ambani’s safety in-charge, Devendra Munsiram, the Gamdevi police initiated a case underneath the Indian Penal Code sections associated to extortion and prison intimidation towards the person liable for sending these ransom threats.