It was revealed by the Punjab police that Arvind Kejriwal, leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and Harshita Kejriwal, his daughter, received a death threat along with a demand for Rs 7 crores on Thursday. The threat was conveyed through Jarnail Singh, the MLA of Tilak Nagar, who received a telephone call as well as a WhatsApp message that spelled out the details of the threat, which said that if the money demanded was not paid, Kejriwal and his daughter would be murdered.
The Mohali police registered a case against the threat based on Jarnail Sikh’s complaint against the culprits under the necessary sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
The police assigned Inspector Sunil Kumar to head the technical investigation into the threat made through both the phone call and WhatsApp message.
The police is also using technical forensics to analyse Call Data Records (CDRs), IP logs, and real-time location data relating to the phone number involved in sending the WhatsApp message and making the call.
Moreover, Jarnail Singh has also made a request for comprehensive security to safeguard the life of Kejriwal along with his family members.
Source investigation: Police are trying to verify if the threat arises from active Bishnoi syndicate handlers or if it is a result of local extortionists using the name of the gang.
Important Bishnoi Gang member ‘Harry Boxer’ arrested in California
The extortion threat has emerged just days after international law enforcement agencies crippled the global network of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.
On November 7, the US authorities arrested the well-known Bishnoi gang member Harichand Jat—commonly known as ‘Harry Boxer’—in California with the help of valuable intelligence input from the Delhi Police Special Cell and the Haryana Special Task Force (STF).
International extortion network: Initially from the Bamsur area of Rajasthan’s Kotputli-Behror district, Harry Boxer was supposed to have run the extortion racket globally from abroad.
Personal history & criminal background: Boxer was a boxer in Jaipur, took coaching for boxing for a short time, and later got involved in organised crime and was found involved in many cases of murder, attempted murder, assault, shooting, and extortion in the states of Delhi, Rajasthan, Punjab, and Haryana.
Punjab police have intensified the anti-gangster operations in the state with the help of its Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF).
Punjab police claimed that their coordinated operations have resulted in 406 raids across Punjab, leading to the arrest of 87 accused and trapping 2 proclaimed offenders. The police inform that the overall number of arrests made so far in the ongoing campaign against gangsters has risen to a whopping 83,529, which shows that the state is committed to combating gangs involved in extortion.
