CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Police have formally registered a criminal case after an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator reported receiving grave death threats targeting former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his daughter Harshita Kejriwal, alongside an extortion demand of Rs 7 crore from an individual claiming affiliation with the notorious Lawrence Bishnoi criminal gang.
The First Information Report (FIR) was lodged based on a detailed complaint submitted by Jarnail Singh, the AAP MLA representing Delhi’s Tilak Nagar assembly constituency. Singh stated that he received threatening voice calls and explicit intimidation messages on WhatsApp on the evening of November 6.
According to the police complaint, the unidentified caller ordered Singh to act as an intermediary and deliver the monetary demand directly to the AAP national convener. “Tell Arvind Kejriwal to pay Rs 7 crore, otherwise I will kill Arvind Kejriwal and his daughter Harshita Kejriwal,” the caller stated in a message transmitted in Hindi, originating from an unknown mobile number with a profile handle displaying “~ $H”.
Taking prompt cognisance of the extortion threat, the State Cyber Crime Police Station in SAS Nagar (Mohali) registered a case on November 7 under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including Section 308(4) (extortion), Section 351(2), (3), and (4) (criminal intimidation), and Section 111(2) (organised crime syndicates), read alongside Section 66D of the Information Technology Act for cheating by personation via computer resources.
Senior police officials confirmed that an investigation spearheaded by Inspector Sunil Kumar is actively underway. Cyber forensics experts and technical intelligence units have initiated digital footprints tracing, call detail record (CDR) analysis, and IP tracking to locate the sender and ascertain whether the extortion demand genuinely originates from active operatives linked to Lawrence Bishnoi or constitutes a rogue extortion bid.
The development follows repeated public statements made by Arvind Kejriwal over recent years scrutinising the operations of jailed criminal figures and demanding heightened vigilance against cross-border and inter-state extortion syndicates.
Police investigators indicated that technical leads are being verified across state boundaries, and coordination has been established with central intelligence agencies to trace the origins of the communication. No arrests have been effected thus far.
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