
A man has been traced and arrested for allegedly calling up a woman on her mobile phone as well as landline numbers and issuing rape and murder threats in a bid to extort Rs 10,000 from her.
This is the 20th case against the accused, identified as Imtiyaz Ansari, 49. He is a resident of Kurla and was nabbed on Saturday from Sakinaka, based on technical evidence. He is the same person who was arrested back in 2017 for stealing the purse of actor Karishma Kapoor’s house help from the actor’s residence.
The 32-year-old complainant works as a manager in a private company in Gamdevi police station area. She told police the accused called her “100 times” on her phone and her landline number passing sexually explicit comments and further gave rape and murder threats to her demanding Rs 10,000 by Gpay on his number.