Himachal police seeks custody of man behind ‘filthy’ SMSes
April 20th, 2010 - 9:40 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, April 20 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh has sent a police team to Delhi to take custody of a man accused of sending “filthy” SMSes to MP Rajan Sushant, an official said Tuesday.
The accused Narender Khosla, a manpower supplier, was arrested by Delhi Police last week Friday for sending threatening and lewd text messages to several politicians, including former minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor.
“Narender Khosla, who has sent threatening and lewd text messages to several politicians, also sent a threatening SMS to Rajan Sushant April 13,” Shimla Superintendent of Police R.M. Sharma told IANS.
He said Sushant, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Kangra in Himachal Pradesh, lodged a complaint at the Shimla police station on the same day of receiving the threatening and lewd text messages.
Khosla and his employee Rohit Kumar were using SIM cards procured in the name of a gym instructor Manik Verma.
A senior official with Delhi Police said: “On interrogation, Khosla revealed that he had a long affair with a girl whom he wanted to marry but couldn’t as his family was against it. He married another woman. But his former girlfriend started an affair with Manik Verma.”
“When Khosla came to know about this, he became very jealous and decided to frame Manik. He gathered Manik’s personal details from different sources, including the internet, prepared a fake driving licence with the help of one of his employees Rohit Kumar and procured a SIM card. He used this card to make an extortion call to a Faridabad-based jeweller and asked him to pay Rs.5 lakh,” the officer said.
“He got another SIM card with Manik’s fake identity proof and used it to send threatening and lewd SMSes to several prominent politicians and MPs,” the officer added.
Nearly 100 text messages were sent to politicians, including Shashi Tharoor, Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Brinda Karat and Congress leaders Rashid Alvi and Sandeep Dikshit in the last fortnight.
A Delhi court Monday sent Khosla and his employee Rohit Kumar to judicial custody till April 30.
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