Industrialist Mukesh Ambani receives 3rd death threat, sender demands Rs 400-crore ransom

Industrialist Mukesh Ambani receives 3rd threat email with Rs 400 crore demand

Reliance Industries chairperson Mukesh Ambani on Monday morning, October 30, received a third death threat email, where the unindentified sender has demanded a ransom of Rs 400 crore. Ambani's company received the email on Monday; this is the third threat email sent to Ambani in four days, a police official had said.

Earlier, an FIR was registered at Gamdevi police station here based on a complaint filed by the industrialist's security in-charge after the first email, seeking Rs 20 crore, was received from an unidentified person on Friday. On Saturday, the company received another email demanding Rs 200 crore.

The company received the third email on Monday, in which the sender doubled the demand, the official said. The Mumbai police, their crime branch and cyber teams are working to trace the sender of the email, he added.

Last year, the Mumbai police arrested a man from Bihar's Darbhanga for making death threat calls to Ambani and his family members. The accused had also threatened to blow up the Sir H N Reliance Foundation Hospital in Mumbai.

With inputs from PTI

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