Mumbai: Mumbai police on Monday arrested a person for allegedly making risk calls to chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Ltd Mukesh Ambani and his household. A police official mentioned that a number of calls had been made on the show variety of the hospital giving life threats to Mr Ambani by an unknown individual.

According to studies, the suspect has been recognized as Vishnu Vibhu Bhowmik (56) who made 9 calls on a landline variety of the Reliance Foundation Hospital between 10.30am and 12 midday. He reportedly claimed his identify as Afzal and threatened to kill Mr Ambani inside three hours. Bhowmik owns a jewelry store in South Mumbai

The hospital representatives instantly reported the matter on the D.B. Marg police station and likewise handed over the recordings of the telephone calls. After scrutinising the decision particulars, the police detained the suspect from Dahisar.

“Total of nine calls have been made giving life threats to Mr Ambani by an unknown person. We have complained to Mumbai police to look into the matter,” an official from the hospital mentioned.

A police officer mentioned that Bhowmik made the primary name at 10.39am. He abused the one who acquired the decision and began giving loss of life threats to Mr Ambani.

When the police began the investigation, they realised that the caller had made all calls from the identical cell phone, which later turned out to be Bhowmik’s personal quantity. The police additionally traced the cell phone location to Bhowmik’s residence at Borivali (West) from the place he was detained.

Deputy commissioner of police Neelotpal mentioned, “The accused had got the number from some public portal. In one of his phone calls, he also mentioned the name of Late Dheerubhai Ambani,.He was detained from Borivali (West) and brought to the D B Marg police. We have booked him under section 506 (II) (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.”

Bhowmik will probably be produced earlier than a court docket on Tuesday. The police are but to determine the motive behind his calls. The 56-year-old, who hails from Tripura, has been dwelling in Mumbai for the final 26 years together with his spouse and two kids.

While listening to a PIL in June this yr, Tripura excessive court docket had directed the Centre asking it to position on report the recordsdata associated to risk notion and evaluation of Mr Ambani and his household. The Supreme Court stayed the excessive court docket’s order after the Centre challenged it on the bottom that the safety supplied to Mr Ambani and his household had nothing to do with the Tripura authorities and the excessive court docket didn’t have the jurisdiction to entertain such a PIL.

Some central companies have additionally sought particulars of the risk calls, the police mentioned.

Mr Ambani was supplied Z-plus safety cowl by the Centre in 2013 primarily based on the risk notion. He was the primary personal individual to obtain such VIP safety from the federal government. After objections raised over the transfer, the federal government had additionally clarified that Mr Ambani was going to pay for his safety. The Centre additionally supplied Y-plus class safety cowl to Neeta Ambani in 2016.

Earlier in 2021, a automotive containing 20 gelignite sticks was discovered exterior the residence of Mukesh Ambani in Mumbai. The investigation of that case was initially given to a Mumbai police crime department unit headed by assistant police inspector Sachin Waze. Few days later, one of many suspects within the case, Mansukh Hiren, was discovered murdered.

The then Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities within the state directed the state Anti Terrorist Squad to analyze Hiren’s loss of life. However, the National Investigation Agency subsequently took over the investigation in each the instances and arrested a number of cops together with Waze, who was the preliminary investigating officer.

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