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MUMBAI: The Mumbai police crime branch on Wednesday arrested three persons from Vadodara, Gujarat accused of sending a hoax bomb threat email to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The mail, sent on Tuesday, claimed bombs were planted at eleven places in Mumbai. It provided three locations and all 11 bombs would explode serially if RBI governor Shaktikanta Das and union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman did not resign from their posts by 1.30pm.
The alleged mastermind behind the emails, Mohammad Arshil Mohammad Iqbal Topala, 27, held a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree and was involved in share trading. Police officials said Topala sent the emails for fun and to harass government officials; there was no other motive. He was arrested along with two accomplices – his brother-in-law Wasimraja Abdulrazzak Memon, 35, who ran a paan shop, and Memon’s friend Adilbhai Rafikbhai Malik, 23, who owned a small shop.
Police officials said Malik procured a sim card using forged documents and gave it to Memon, who then handed it over to Topala. The share trader created a gmail account – khilafat.india@gmail.com – from his mobile phone using the sim card procured by Malik.