MUMBAI: A threatening phone call was received in the office of the personal assistant of SBI Chairman located at the Corporate Center in Nariman Point area. A case of threatening the bank chairman for not sanctioning the loan has come to light. In fact, an unknown person called the State Bank of India (SBI) office in South Mumbai and demanded a loan of Rs 10 lakh and if it was not done, he threatened to kidnap and kill the chairman. He has also threatened to blow up the office with a bomb.
Police officials said that the complaint was lodged on Thursday by Ajay Kumar Srivastava, Assistant Security Manager of the bank office. According to this, the caller introduced himself as Mohammad Zia Ul Ali and said that the bank would have to sanction his loan of Rs 10 lakh. “The caller had threatened that if the loan was not sanctioned, the SBI chairman would be kidnapped and killed and the bank’s corporate office would be bombed,” the officer said. The officer said that a threatening phone call was received in the office of the personal assistant of the SBI Chairman located at the Corporate Center in Nariman Point area. The next day, based on the complaint lodged in this regard, an FIR was registered against the unknown person who made the call. The officer said that during the investigation, the police found out that the call was made from West Bengal, hence a team of Mumbai Police has left for Kolkata to trace and arrest the suspect.
A police team was sent to Bengal
According to the officer, the police have registered an FIR against the person under section 506 (2) (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). He said that the police has started investigating the matter. Call detail records (CDR) of the phone number from which the threat call was received have been obtained. A team of Mumbai Police has been sent to West Bengal to nab the accused. The country’s largest lender SBI is currently headed by Dinesh Kumar Khara.
