Email account of Gujarat IPS officer Rajnish Rai hacked

The email account of IPS officer Rajnish Rai has been hacked, police said today.

The officer registered a complaint on Friday after he found that password of his Gmail account had been changed without his knowledge, police said.

According to the complaint, the account was hacked before January 6 by some unknown person.

A case has been registered under Section 66 of the Information Technology Act.

Police said that they have written to the email service provider Google about the alleged hacking and awaiting a response from them.

Rai had come into prominence when he arrested three IPS officers DG Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandiyan and Dinesh M N, and other police officials when he was investigation officer covering Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case in 2007.