This time the emailer raised his demand from ₹20 crore to ₹200 crore, citing lack of response to the previous email.

“Another email came from the same email account in which it was written ‘U have not responded to our email now the amount is 200 crore otherwise the death warrant is signed’,” the news agency quoted the Mumbai Police as saying.

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Ambani on Friday received death threats via email threatening to shoot him if he failed to pay ₹20 crore.

As per Mumbai police, it was written in the threatening email that “If you don’t give us 20 crore rupees, we will kill you, we have the best shooters in India.”

Following the mail, based on the complaint of Mukesh Ambani’s security in-charge, the Gamdevi Police of Mumbai registered a case against an unknown person under sections 387 and 506 (2) of the IPC. Further investigation is underway.

This is not the first time Mukesh Ambani has his family have received death threats.

In 2022, an unidentified caller issued a threat against Mukesh Ambani and his family. He called up Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital and threatened to blow up the hospital in south Mumbai, said police.

In August 2022, a jeweler was arrested after he allegedly called up the hospital and threatened to kill industrialist Mukesh Ambani and his family members.

In February 2021, a sports utility vehicle (SUV) laden with explosives was found near Mukesh Ambani’s south Mumbai residence ‘Antilia’.

With agency inputs.

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Updated: 29 Oct 2023, 04:23 PM IST