According to police, an FIR was filed by the Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Cell on April 29 evening after Nitesh Jaiswal, senior supervisor at Zydus Cadila, submitted a criticism.

“On March 9 this year, I received a message on WhatsApp from an unknown number to which I also replied. The unknown person who identified as a woman and then we chatted for a few days. The person then asked me to deposit money in Live-ex Commodity Trading on share market, luring with good returns. From March 19 to March 31, I deposited Rs 4.7 lakh in different instalments to Kotak Mahindra Bank account given by the person. When I did not receive any returns till April first week, I demanded money back from the person. On April 9, I received a photo on my Whatsapp from the sender in which there was a hand holding a pistol, sent to me as a death threat,” mentioned Jaiswal in his written criticism.

Taking cognisance, police have lodged a case beneath IPC 406 for prison breach of belief, 420 for fraud, 506 for prison intimidation and sections of the IT Act.