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Friday, Sep 02, 2005

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One held for e-mail to Sanjay Kapur

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The owner of a video games parlour has been arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi police for allegedly sending a threat mail to Sanjay Kapur, the estranged husband of film actress Karisma Kapoor, demanding Rs. 50 crores. The police are yet to ascertain if the accused had any links with the underworld.

Addressing media persons here on Wednesday, the Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), Karnal Singh, said the accused, identified as Rajkumar Wazir Chand Vazirani, was arrested at Mulund in Mumbai on Tuesday evening. The police have seized the computer allegedly used for sending the message and also the one kept in his shop. He was brought to the Capital on Wednesday and remanded by a court to seven-day police custody.

In the e-mail to Sanjay Kapur, the sender, assuming the name of Sameer Kulkrani, had threatened to shoot him if he did not pay. The sender had also asked him to talk to a notorious criminal, Ravi Bhai Pujari, over telephone. A police team was sent to Mumbai as the source of the e-mail was traced to a cyber café in Mulund.

The cyber café owner was questioned and he told the police that a local criminal, who turned out to be Rajkumar, had visited the cyber café at the time the e-mail was generated. The police rounded up Rajkumar and interrogated him following which he allegedly confessed.

Rajkumar purportedly told the police that on August 25 he had created a new e-mail ID in the name of Sameer Kulkarni on rediff.com to send the message. The police said Rajkumar did not use his own computer, which had an Internet connection, probably to escape detection.

The Joint Commissioner said Rajkumar's motive appeared to extort money but it was yet to be ascertained if he had links with Ravi Pujari.

What baffles the police is the fact that Sameer Kulkarni, in whose name the mail was sent, was an associate of Rajkumar and a co-accused in a 1992 extortion case in which Rajkumar and he had posed as Customs officials and allegedly extorted money from some people at Mumbai Airport in 1992. The police are now tying to trace Sameer and find out about his links with Rajkumar.

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