RANCHI: Chief minister Hemant Soren has received another threat mail, the fourth one since he assumed office for the second time.
Police have not been able to crack the previous three cases and had tried keeping the recent episode a secret but it got leaked to media on Wednesday.
The threat mail, written in abusive and objectionable language, addressed to the CM was sent to the CM’s secretary on May 25 following which a case was registered at Gonda police station on June 1.
Confirming that the mail was received by the CMO, Sadar deputy SP Deepak Kumar said that the sender was identified as Vikram Gadhrai and was traced to Raj Rajeshwari Nagar in Bengaluru, from where he was arrested.
“The accused had not issued a direct life threat to the CM.
However, the language was abusive and had several objectionable accusations.
During interrogation, the youth was apologetic over his behaviour and claimed that he wrote it out of frustration during the second Covid wave prevailing in the state,” Kumar said, adding that he was later released on bail.
After receipt of the mail, Gonda police had registered an FIR on June 1 under sections 385 and 387 of the IT Act, 2000, but once the sender was traced and interrogated the sections were changed to Section 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code and Gadhrai was released on bail.
The CM had received similar mails in July 2020 and a case was registered with the Cyber Police station on July 13.
Two such mails received by the CMO in July were self-destructive, wherein the mails were sent using a temporarily created ID.
Police had then said that the mails had originated from servers in Switzerland and Germany.
Once again threatening mails were sent to the CMO in January this year but the matter came to light in February.
The then DGP M V Rao admitted before media in Chaibasa on February 9 that threat mails were received.
ADG CID Prashant Singh said that he was not aware of the exact status of the previous cases.
“We can share details after verifying,” he said.