Email threat to bomb RBI, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, received probe launched, says Mumbai police

27 Dec 2023 , 01:19 PM

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) received a threatening email on December 26, the sender alleging that bombs would be deployed at the central bank’s office, as well as the buildings of HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank in Mumbai.

According to the authorities, the email sender threatened to attack 11 different areas in Mumbai. According to authorities, a case has been filed, and an investigation is ongoing. A team of detectives also went to the 11 places and discovered nothing untoward, they added.

According to police, the individual who wrote the threatening email sought the resignations of RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

It identified three locations: RBI New Central Office Building, Fort, HDFC House, Churchgate, and ICICI Bank Towers BKC.

We put 11 different explosives in various sites around Mumbai. The RBI, in collaboration with private sector banks, perpetrated India’s largest fraud.

The fraud includes RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, financial Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, senior financial officials, and prominent Indian ministers. According to the news outlet, the email added, we have sufficient proof for the same.

We demand that both the RBI Governor and the Finance Minister resign immediately and issue a public statement disclosing the entire extent of the scandal. We also urge that the government penalise both those participating in the scheme and those who are not. If our demands are not granted by 1:30 p.m., all 11 bombs will supposedly explode one by one, read the mail further.

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