Daijiworld Media Network - Mumbai (SR)

Mumbai, Aug 10: Abhishek Tiwari (28), working as delivery boy in the city, was not satisfied with his job and his life, and wanted to draw the attention of people toward him. That is when he decided to send death threats to the Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, in a bid to attract public attention.

Abhishek, who hails from Uttar Pradesh's Unnaoa district, resided at Nala Sopara in Mumbai since 2016 and worked as delivery boy with a furniture firm. As reported in TOI, Anyesh Roy, deputy commissioner of police, cyber crime unit said that they had received a complaint last month from Delhi CM's office about the CM getting life threats over email and the cops launched an enquiry. Based on technical analysis of inputs collected regarding origin of e-mail, connected mobile phone and IP logs, teams were rushed to Mumbai and Kanpur to locate the suspect.

Roy said, "The suspect, however, had gone underground and was leaving very few digital footprints. With deep analysis of technical inputs, his location was zeroed to Nala Sopara, Mumbai, a densely populated area. The team in Mumbai searched through hundreds of chawls till the accused was finally nabbed."

"Tiwari had also sent an email to a municipal office bearer of a major political party in Mumbai, but disappointed with the lukewarm response, upped the ante and decided to send threat mails to senior political leaders," Roy said. "He sent threatening mails to Delhi's CM. The accused has also sent an email of a bomb threat to the national party's headquarters here."

Tiwari is being interrogated and the mobile phone he used to send the emails from has been recovered and undergoing cyber forensic analysis.