Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Dholakia used his estranged wife’s email ID to send a terror threat


Western Inn, a five-star hotel in Pune, got an email warning of a bomb attack on the property using RDX. The sender demanded Rs 2.5 crore if the attack was to be aborted. The cops got IP address which turned out to be a cyber cafe in Bangalore.

On a complaint from the hotel,the Pune police who investigated the email threat contacted Yahoo as the mail was sent under a Yahoo mail ID. They gave the cops the IP address from where the e-mail was sent, which turned out to be a cyber cafe in Bangalore.

Last Wednesday, a Pune police team arrived at the cyber cafe, where the staffers suspected Dholakia who used to come there regularly. On Thursday, around 4.30 pm, an unsuspecting Dholakia came to the cafe and the cops arrested him. After preliminary questioning, where he confessed, he was taken to Pune.

Suresh Dholakia alias Sunil Suresh Nayak, a native of Pune,married a Mumbai girl in the ‘90s. They had two children, but later separated. Dholakia met Savitha, a Bangalorean, through a matrimonial site and they got married in April 2004. They had a daughter, now two and-a-half years old, but the marriage soon ran into rough weather. Dholakia apparently lived off her income and also physically abused her often. In August 2009, Savitha applied for divorce. Dholakia made repeated attempts at rappraochement but failed to really mend his ways. The couple came to Bangalore in January 2010. As the harassment continued, Savitha filed a complaint against him at Mahalakshmi Layout police station. Dholakia was arrested by the police, but the same day he managed to obtain bail.

Dholakia then threatened to kill her and Savitha again approached the police. Dholakia was arrested and remanded to 14 days of judicial custody.Savitha meanwhile returned to Singapore to complete her project. Dholakia couldn’t go to Singapore and harass her as his passport had been seized by the police. According to Mahalakshmi Layout police, it was then that Dholakia, who was privy to Savitha’s email password, hatched the email plots.

Dholakia (40), who heads a HR consultany firm, had sent the mail from his wife’s ID, as a way of getting back at her for divorcing him. His wife Savitha Nayak (38), a HR consultant, is currently based in Singapore. Investigations revealed that in May Dholakia had used Savitha’s email ID to send threatening messages to Australia. The Australian authorities picked up her two siblings residing there for questioning, but let them off after ascertaining that it was a hoax.

On June 1, Suresh Dholakia sent a threat mail from his estranged wife’s email ID to Western Inn, a five-star hotel in Pune threatening bomb attack on the property using RDX. He demanded Rs 2.5 crore if the attack was to be aborted.The Pune cops arrested him here last Thursday.

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