Mumbai police arrested freelance reporter after twelve years. Case has been booked for trying to incite communal tension and sending hate mails to other two TV reporters.
The accused complained the police about a suspected man who was plotting a major terror attack and also helped to drew a sketch of the suspect. After some days once again this two reporters received hate mails, traced to the accused, telling them to stay away from the case.
Later the prosecutions did not testify the evidence as required, it leads to draw conclusion that the prosecution failed to establish involvement of the accused in the alleged offences for which he is charged,” the court said.
The accused had gone to the cops with the help of the TV reporters in 2005 and said in August 2005, when I was taking my train Virar from Churchgate, a suspicious person from a particular community dropped an envelope before alighting at Mira Road and when I picked up the envelope and took it home I found a sheet of paper inside with digits cut out from a calendar so I did not understand what the digits meant.
The next day when I saw a film on TV in which terrorists communicated with each other with codes. Using that idea, he decoded the message on the paper. It showed that attacks were being planned on landmarks in the city. After the statement given by accused to police prepared a sketch on the basis of his description.
Later in September 2005, the same TV reporters received threat through emails sent from a cyber cafe in Vasai and traced it to an email address of the accused whose complaint was lodged that the accused indented to hurt the feelings and sentiments of people from two religions, which would end in violence.
