The Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) has finally identified the person whose email was allegedly used to send a jihadi recruitment email to an advocate in Assam.
Police inspector, DCB, MD Chaudhary told DNA that the email account from which the mail was sent belonged to one Gautam Raju, a city-based marketing executive.
Police suspect that the email account was hacked by someone in October 2009. DNA was the first to report that an advocate based in Assam, Ajoy Hazarika, had received an email inviting him to join jihad. The contact number given in the mail was a city-based number.
However, DCB believes that Raju’s account was hacked and he has been given a clean chit by the officials. Hazarika had filed a complaint with the Special Task Force (STF) of Assam after he received an email inviting him to join jihad.
The email also promised Hazarika $10 lakh if he killed in the name of jihad.
The Assam police later on informed the Gujarat police and the DCB was sent to crack the case. The police have so far interrogated Raju, but it seems that his email account has been hacked.
"He remains in contact with many customers through email as his work is related to online marketing," a police source said. The DCB along with the help of the Assam police are all set to trace the exact location from where the email account had been hacked.
With inputs by Ritesh Shah)
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