Jamshedpur : The police have released the three suspects who were detained for being involved in giving threat text messages to director general of police (DGP), Jharkhand.
East Singhbhum district senior superintendent of police Amol V Homkar said that they interrogated the three suspects who had been picked up by the police from a shop at Adityapur in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district but were were released as no evidence of their involvement in the episode could be found.
The SSP, Homkar is in touch with the state police and intelligence in the investigation as the mobile No 8407092840 from which the threat messages had been made to the chief minister, Hemant Soren and DGP, Rajiv Kumar is still active and the tower location of the sim-holder is revolves around Kadma and Sonari area of the city.
Notably, a team of police officials from Jamshedpur had picked up Naveen Agrawal, Ayush Amman and Prabhas Mishra from their shops and residence in Adityapur.
Agrawal is the owner of Garg Stores, Adityapur from which the SIM was sold in the name of Prabhas Mishra. Another suspect Ayush, who is a salesman at the Garg Stores, had been picked up as he had dealt with the man who had bought the SIM by furnishing fake document. Prabhas had been picked up from his residence near Akaashvani Bhavan in Adityapur.
The police sources said the said SIM card-holder had on May 25, 2014 given a text message to a city-based businessman Manish Gupta on his cell-phone No 9334663555.
Later the SIM-card holder had yet another message to the block development officer, Chakulia in Ghatshila sub-division, Girija Shanker Mahto, asking him to pay Rs 5 lakh as levy or face the dire consequences. The businessman is said to have deleted the message from his cell-phone.
