Guwahati, Jan. 10: Cyber crime sleuths of the state CID today arrested a professional on charges of sending threat mails to a Cotton College lecturer a few months back.
Amit Sanyal, 35, a resident of Siliguri, was arrested from his father-in-laws house in Pandu, where he came two days back.
CID sources said the accused works as an area manager in a Bangalore-based company and is posted in Siliguri.
Sanyal was booked under section 66A of IT Act 2000 and released on bail, the sources added.
The sources further said the arrest was made based on a complaint lodged by the lecturer in October last year that someone had sent threatening mails to him, his relatives and college authorities alleging that he had illicit affairs with his students. The lecturer also alleged that the person had sent messages to his friends on his social networking account as well.
The CID started investigating in the case (61/2010) and identified the Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer used by the accused. We took help of Google.com and identified the user. He had sent the mails from an unknown email address and a fake profile of a social networking site. By the time we identified the user in November, he had escaped to Hong Kong. We were looking for him for quite sometime, and yesterday, we came to know that he is here to visit his father-in-law and arrested him today, the sources said.
Sources said that Sanyal admitted before the CID investigators that he had sent the emails to the lecturer. We arrested him on charges of sending defamatory emails and giving threats. He was however, released on bail after being questioned for about an hour, the sources added. Sanyal was not available for comment.
The cyber crime cell of CID has so far registered 19 cases from across the state relating to threat mails, hacking of social networking accounts, uploading nude photographs and morphing pictures.
On December 9, 2010, the CID sleuths arrested a computer engineering student, Arpit Bhargav, 19, from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh on charges of morphing photographs of a girl from Guwahati, with whom he developed a love affair through a social networking site.
Arpit was arrested from his residence at Jabalpur, based on a complaint lodged by the girl and her father on November 19 last year.
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Category: Cyber Crime