The probe into the threat mail received by former MLA Zeeshan Siddique was on Thursday transferred to the Mumbai crime branch.
The case had earlier been registered by the Bandra police that was probing the matter. However, since the Baba Siddique case was being investigated by the Mumbai crime branch, this case too was handed over to them.
A senior police officer confirmed that the probe had been handed over to the Mumbai crime branch on Thursday. The crime branch will register a fresh FIR in the matter and carry out investigations.
Earlier, police sources had said that the IP address of the server through which the mail had been sent had been traced to a country located near the US. Police said that they were checking if the location had been manipulated through the Virtual Private Network (VPN) or if the mail had actually been generated from that country.
In the threat mails that Zeeshan received earlier this week, the person demanded Rs 10 crore as ransom, failing which, the sender threatened he would meet the same fate as his father Baba Siddique. The NCP leader was gunned down in October last year allegedly by members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. The sender sent him reminder emails every six hours, which prompted Zeeshan Siddique to approach the Bandra police, which registered an FIR.
Last year, threat mails sent to actor Salman Khan were found to have originated in the UK. In that case, police had found it was an Indian student who had gone to the UK to study, who sent the mail as a prank, following which a Look Out Circular (LOC) was issued against him. The moment he lands in India, the police will be alerted and the person will be arrested.
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