City technocrat gets extortion emails from former employee posing as underworld don Chhota Rajan. Bangalore cops trace sender’s IP address to Burdwan, West Bengal and nab accused.
There are underworld dons of the dreaded kind, and then there are the faux kind! A former employee of a tech company headed by a high-profile Bangalore technocrat thought he could frighten his ex-boss into parting with Rs 10 lakh by pretending to be fugitive gangster Chhota Rajan. But his threats turned out to be no more than that, as the police traced him to a house in West Bengal and nabbed him.
The accused is 29-year-old Abhishek Guha, a native of West Bengal and a resident of Mysore. The man he wanted to extort Rs 10 lakh from is well-known IT consultant and entrepreneur Karan Kumar H.
The chain of threats started on November 30 when Karan Kumar, currently business head of CBay Systems (I) Pvt Ltd, who is also founder-director of four IT companies including Pacecom Technologies and Medtran Software Solutions, received a mail from punitpandey52@yahoo.com demanding Rs 10 lakh in return for his family’s safety. The first mail said: “Hi Mr Karan Kumar, hope all are fine. Heard about your companies in Bangalore touching the sky, good, God bless you. Anyway, this mail is for survival money (sic) of you and your family, mainly of your small kids. Hope you can understand and know what to do. Don’t take this mail casually or as a joke.”
Alarmed, Karan lodged a complaint with the Chennammanakere Achukattu police station. The police swung into action, but drew a blank when the IP address of the sender led them to a cyber cafe in Mysore’s Kuvempunagar area. However, the sender’s ID could not ascertained as user details were not maintained by the cyber cafe.
The second mail, on December 5, said: “Mr Karan, you think yourself a clever person, right? Bahut chalaki kya, hamara admi aapko 24 ghante nazar rakta hai. Deli mein 4, Hyderabad mein 2, Uttar Pradesh mein 13, Bihar mein 7 businessmen ko thoka and now mera admi Karnataka mein hai...so dont mesh (sic) with me... chalaki baad mein karna...nehi to ghar mein ghus ke marenge...pura family ko. Make an account, drop there 10 lakh and mail me the Internet login ID and password. This should be done within two days.” This time, the IP address led the cops to another cyber cafe in Mysore.
On December 8, a third threat-mail reduced the ‘demand’ to Rs 8 lakh. This was followed by ‘reminders’ on December 9 and 10. This time, the sender’s IP address was tracked to an Airtel datacard in the name of Abhishek Guha, a former employee of CBay Systems headed by Karan. The cops realised that Abhishek had created a fake email id.
Even as the police launched a manhunt for him, Abhishek sent another threat-mail on December 13 which read: “This is Chhota Rajan, hope you know me, from Maharashtra. Punit Pandeyji ka khas admi, you have bound (sic) to call me. I am sending you the details here. Put the cash amount today itself and confirm to Pandeyji by email, don’t do any mistakes otherwise results will not be good. Take care, Rajan.”
By now, it was only a question of cornering the miscreant. A police team from Bangalore swooped down on a house in Burdwan, West Bengal, and arrested Abhishek on December 14. A laptop and SIM cards were seized from him.
According to the police, Abhishek had worked as a junior quality analyst at CBay Systems in Bangalore between April and May 2011. He was removed from the company in October and subsequently joined a medical transcription company in Mysore.
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