A Delhi court on Monday remanded a businessman,accused of sending threatening and filthy text messages to politicians,including former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor,to judicial custody. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Dig Vinay Singh sent Narender Khosla,27,a manpower supplier who allegedly procured SIM cards in someone else's name,to judicial custody till April 30. Delhi police's Special Cell,which arrested Khosla on the night of April 16,produced him before the court after quizzing him in their custody for two days. The investigators,however,did not seek further police custody of Khosla,after which the court sent him to judicial custody. The police had sought his custodial interrogation on April 17 on the ground that he is to be taken to Amritsar,the place he hailed from,for recovery of the SIM cards allegedly used by him. According to the police,the accused used documents of a gym instructor Manick Verma to procure the SIM cards and sent text messages with an aim to cause trouble to the latter with whom he had a personal rivalry. The accused was allegedly angry with Verma for having an affair with a woman in whom he also was also interested. Khosla's employee Rohit,22,who was also arrested in the case,has already been sent to judicial custody by the CMM till April 30. Khosla had allegedly sent threatening SMSes to Tharoor and,MPs Brinda Karat,Mehmood Masood Madani,Rashid Alvi,Om Prakash and Sandeep Dikshit. A total of five cases have been registered against him in Delhi.
