Man held for false claims of Pakistani funding against businessman

Vadodara: A man from Godhra was arrested by Panchmahal police for trying to mislead them by making false allegations about a businessman receiving funding from Pakistan via Dubai. The email was sent to the Panchmahal superintendent of police (SP) using someone else's name.

The email was sent to the email ID of the Panchmahal SP and mentioned the name of Yogesh Hemrajani, a cement dealer, as the sender. It alleged that Shabbir Nadatodwala had bought three shops and was getting money from Pakistan. It further alleged that Shabbir's son was working in Dubai and the money from Pakistan was first sent to Dubai, from where it was sent to Shabbir. The email made other allegations about black money and money laundering.

Police spoke to Hemrajani, who said he did not send the email. Police then started looking for the sender of the email and sought details from Yahoo, the email service used by the sender. The company shared the IP address from where the email was sent. Police approached the telecom company whose IP address was used and got details of the phone number using it.

It emerged that the phone number belonged to Hussain Valikarimwala, a resident of Godhra. Police also spoke to Nadatodwala, who told police that earlier a similar email had been sent to police making allegations against his son from the same email ID. He said the allegations against him were baseless.

Nadatodwala said he submitted an application to police when the allegations were made against his son. He said he had business relations with Hemrajani.

An offence was filed by Panchmahal police's special operations group (SOG) police inspector D G Vahoniya at Godhra B Division police station against Valikarimwala and he has been arrested.