Senior BJP leader and former finance minister Yashwant Sinha has become the latest victim of harassment on cyberspace as it has turned out that he has been receiving hate mail from the last two months.
Police sources said Mr Sinha, who represents the Hazari Bagh constituency in Lok Sabha, has been receiving hate mail filled with communal references and personal abuses from one Ravinder Singh. The investigators have not been able to verify the antecedents of Singh so far but a case was registered at the economic offences wing of Delhi police under Information Technology Act on Thursday.
A complaint sent to Delhi police commissioner B.K. Gupta by Mr Sinha states that he has been receiving hate mails from Singh for two months and had even written to him to desist from the act. “Ravinder Singh has been sending me hate emails for some time now. My email address is widely known and taking advantage of that, this person has of late been sending me abusive mails,” Mr Sinha told the police.
“I once replied to him and requested him not to send me further emails. However, my request has fallen on deaf ears and he continues to send me mails,” Mr Sinha stated. Sources said two mails sent by Singh to Mr Sinha on November 7 and November 30 are full of abuses, targeting Mr Sinha on the basis of his association with Bharatiya Janata Party and on the basis of his religion. “The recent mails contain some references which are communal in nature following which Mr Sinha thought it was necessary that legal action be taken against the accused,” a crime branch source said.
Last month, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley had approached the crime branch with a complaint against an unidentified person who had been spreading defamatory information on the social networking site Twitter against him through his fake profile.