Mumbai Live: 12 UP MLAs get threat message from man posing as Dawood Ibrahim, probe ordered

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he Uttar Pradesh police today set up a special task force to probe extortion threats to at least 12 MLAs from a person who seems to be claiming a past link with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
The MLAs, most of them from the ruling BJP, got text and WhatsApp messages asking them to pay Rs 10 lakh or their families will be eliminated within three days.
"We have constituted an SIT to probe the matter. The person sending the messages is using proxy servers and we are trying to decipher the IP address. The teams are on the job to track the person," Director General of Police O P Singh told PTI.
When asked whether the person is former aide of Dawood Ibrahim, the DGP said he is claiming this by using a particular name. But the police have not reached a conclusion.
In all the messages, the sender has given out his name as Ali Budesh Bhai from Dubai, a reference to a gangster once linked to the now Pakistan-based Dawood Ibrahim.
The SIT team was set up after directions from Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath who took strong note of the threats.

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