April 17, 2015 by admin

RBI Guv gets ‘death threat’ via e-mail

Mumbai, Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan has received a death threat via an e-mail bearing terror outfit ISIS’ name following which his security has been stepped up and Mumbai police have launched a probe to identify the sender.
The email, which threatened to eliminate the Governor, was received last month at the RBI’s official e-mail address, the police said today.
Though the police did not elaborate on the content of the mail which was sent from isis583847@gmail.com, police sources said it warned Rajan that he would be eliminated as a contract was received to execute him.
The Reserve Bank of India has not issued any official statement as yet on this. When contacted, the Central bank’s spokesperson said Rajan is away in Washington along with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for the annual World Bank Group meeting and it will take some time to get his comments.
The electronic mail reads: “If Rajan pays more than the contract amount received to kill him, then he (perpetrator) would think as to what can be done (whether to kill Rajan or not),” sources said.
Preliminary probe suggests that the gmail account has been accessed from different countries, including Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany, the US, Nigeria, Poland, Belgium, Hong Kong and Ukraine, in a span of a few days, and the police said a proxy Internet Protocol address was used to send the email. “The Governor’s security has been beefed up,” said Maharashtra Additional Chief Secretary (Home) KP Bakshi.