Gurgaon/Kolkata, Jan 25: Haryana Police arrested a 27-year-old youth from Behala on Tuesday for allegedly sending a threat mail to a five-star hotel chain in Delhi and IT city Gurgaon in the name of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen.
Copies of the terror mail were also marked to the offices of Delhi chief minister Sheila Dixit and police commissioner Neeraj Kumar.
Before moving in for the arrest, the cyber cell of the Gurgaon police had seized a computer hard disk from a cyber cafe on Roy Bahadur Road in Behala that was allegedly used to send the mails.
Sources in Gurgaon police said that the suspect - Nilesh Bhattacharya - has a "disturbed past" and may have been seeking attention.
Nilesh was picked up from his home around 10pm on Tuesday and taken to Gurgaon. Sources said he is unemployed and passed the Class XII exams through open school. "His father died a couple of years ago. His brother, too, had an unnatural death with the accused claiming that he had committed suicide. Nilesh claims that his mother is undergoing some treatment. We are investigating his claims and trying to ascertain if he is mentally challenged," said Gurgaon police DCP Maheshwar Dayal.
The e-mail, claiming to be from Indian Mujahideen, had threatened terror strikes on the lines of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. It was sent from the ID - [email protected] on January 20. "Mumbai ke bad ab dilli ki bari, hotel *** . New Dilli ka koi astitva nahi rahne denge. gola barood to tumhare yahan pahunch chuka hai (After Mumbai, it's turn of Delhi. Delhi will be reduced to ashes. Explosives have already been sent). Mohmmad Abdul Aaka alias Nilanjan Bhattacharya," said the mail.
It seemed that the threat was addressed to the Delhi chief minister, police commissioner and hotels, said Gurgaon police commissioner K K Sindhu. "It was forwarded only to the security officer, who is currently working with Leela Kempinski at the Ambience Mall in Gurgaon," he said.
The Special Cell of Delhi police said they were also investigating the case since the same e-mail was forwarded to the Delhi chief minister's Sheila Dikshit's office just ahead of the Republic Day celebrations.
Talking to TOI, S N Srivastava, special CP (Special Cell), said they had difficulties in tracking the accused as there was no CCTV footage that could be recovered from the cyber cafe. Gurgaon police, though, said the accused had attached his photo with the email making their job easier to identify the accused.
"The team had visited a cyber cafe in Behala and took the IP address from where the email was sent. The computer hard disk was also seized," said joint commissioner of police (crime) Pallab Kanti Ghosh.
The ID used to send the alleged Indian Mujahideen mail was created on January 20, the same day it was sent from the cyber cafe. According to a senior police officer, two other persons are also under scanner and the cafe owner too is being questioned.
"The three suspects regularly visited the cyber cafe. Their entries in the log book, along with ID cards, were also recovered. One of the three IDs deposited could be fake. We are on job and the accused will be arrested soon," a member of the police team said.
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