Shivakumar told reporters that he had forwarded the email to the police officers who are now on the job to trace the sender.
Published Mar 05, 2024 | 6:06 PM ⚊ Updated Mar 05, 2024 | 6:06 PM
CM Siddaramaiah & DyCM DK Shivakumar
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar have received an email threatening to cause explosions in various targets of the State if they don’t pay up $2.5 million.
Shivakumar, also the state Congress chief, told reporters on Tuesday, 5 March, that he has forwarded the email to the police officers who are now on the job to trace the sender.
“Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and I received the mail three days ago. It is in my phone and I have sent it to the police for investigation,” he said.
According to him, the sender is “Shahid Khan10786”, who has also shared another email ID for future communication.
The letter read, “Alert-1: You saw our movie trailer. If you don’t provide us $2.5 million, we will cause a large explosion on buses, trains, taxis, temples, hotels and public places throughout Karnataka.”
“Alert-2: We want to show you one more trailer. We will explode in the next one in the Ambari Utsav bus. After the blast in the bus, we will raise our demand on social media and we will upload the screenshots of the mail sent to you also on social media. We will tweet the next information about explosion on the social media,” it said.
Shivakumar said, “We don’t know whether it is bogus, fraud, true, false or blackmailer. We have sent it to our police officers. They are on the job.”
The mail comes close on the heels of the low-intensity blast at the Rameshwaram Cafe in the Brookefield area near Whitefield in Bengaluru on 1 March.
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