Caller Who Threatened Ratan Tata With 'Same Fate Of Cyrus Mistry¡¯, Tracked Down, Let Off Without Charges
The Mumbai Police have cracked the case of a threat call to veteran industrialist and former Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata. The location of the call was tracked down in Karnataka, and the caller was a resident of Pune.
The Mumbai Police have said that they have cracked the case of a threat call to veteran industrialist and former Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata.
According to the Police, the location of the call was tracked down in Karnataka, and the caller was a resident of Pune.
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What the caller said
On Wednesday, the Mumbai Police received a call from an unidentified person who asked them to enhance Ratan Tata's security, failing which he warned that the 85-year-old industrialist would meet the same fate as former Tata Sons chairman, Cyrus Mistry, who died in a car crash.
How Cyrus Mistry died
The 54-year-old son of industrialist Pallonji Mistry was the Chairman of Tata Sons from 2012 to 2016.
He was killed on September 4, 2022, when the Mercedes-Benz GLC in which he was travelling with his friends crashed into a road divider on a bridge on the Ahmedabad - Mumbai, National Highway 8 in the Palghar district of Maharashtra.
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What Mumbai Police did
Following the threat call, Mumbai Police went into full alert mode and a special team was assigned to cater to the personal security of Ratan Tata while the other team was asked to collect information about the caller.
During the course of the investigation, the police tracked down the caller through technical surveillance.
The caller's location was found to be in Karnataka, the police said, adding that he was a resident of Pune.
Who was the anonymous caller?
As the police reached his Pune residence, they came to know that the caller had been missing for the last five days, and his wife had even filed a complaint at the Bhosari police station in the city.
After questioning the caller's kin, the sleuths learned that he has schizophrenia, and he took the phone with which he made the call from someone's house without informing them.
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He rang up the control room of the Mumbai Police and threatened Ratan Tata, the sleuths said.
The officer said since the caller was found to be battling schizophrenia, the police decided against pursuing legal action against him.
The sleuths learned that the caller has an MBA in finance and also studied engineering.
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