“Stop me if you can,” he wrote in an e-mail to three media houses, threatening to blow them up on August 12.
Sagar Kashyap, 20, probably stretched his passion for computers a bit too far. “Stop me if you can,” he wrote in an e-mail to three media houses, threatening to blow them up on August 12. The game was up for the second year BSc student from a reputed city college on Wednesday, when he was nabbed by the anti-terrorism squad (ATS).
Hours after he was picked up, investigators found out that Kashyap was “experimenting with his passion and knowledge”. The media houses received the mail on August 7 and the sender identified himself as Imran Azhar Khan. A resident of Central Railway colony in Kurla and son of a motorman, Kashyap had been hacking and misusing internet accounts as his family could not afford to have a connection at home.
“During a preliminary interrogation, he told us he sent the mail as a prank. We are probing the matter further since it is a sensitive case,” said Nasir Kulkarni, assistant police inspector, ATS.
He has been booked under various sections of the Information Technology Act and the Indian Penal Code and remanded in police custody till August16. Senior ATS officials said since Kashyap hacked into other’s net accounts, it was difficult to trace him and they were on a wild goose chase until they traced him.
The cyber team of the ATS got cracking after the media houses received the messages and traced the sender’s address: yuvrajpatil00@gmail.com. The investigators first picked up a youth from Ghatkopar for preliminary enquiry. However, he was let off. A few days later, the ATS picked up a businessman from Ghatkopar, who was a cloth merchant and shuttled between Surat and Mumbai.
“While questioning him, we found out that his computer had been out of order for the last six months,” said a senior ATS official. A team of cyber experts were called in to scrutinising his system and that’s when they figured that someone else was tampering with it. “Eventually, we traced the mischief to Kashyap,” added the official.
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