With the arrest of one man from Dubai and two criminals in Delhi, police said they have solved a case where a businessman in Vasant Vihar received bullets and a threat in March. Investigators said the prime suspect in the case, the former top official of a major Indian textile brand, arranged threats to the businessman in an attempt to conceal illicit affairs. A web of blackmailing and threats, police officers said, started when the former chief commercial officerof Raymond Ltd Rajesh Gogna terminated the contract of a vendor identified by the police as Deepak Sateeja – a resident of Vasant Vihar, who received the threat letter in question.
After the termination, Sateeja reportedly blackmailed Gogna that he will disclose to the latter’s family about illicit affairs that Sateeja had reportedly “helped arrange”, investigators familiar with the case said. In response, police said, Gogna contacted a man in Dubai, event planner Ali Zaidi, to help arrange threats to Sateeja. Zaidi, in turn, then told a man, Saif Ali Khan in Delhi, to hire two men to deliver a threat letter and live bullet cartridges to Sateeja’s house.
Three people have been arrested in the case, confirmed deputy commissioner of police (southwest) Rohit Meena, but refrained from sharing further details. The events in the case came to light on March 13, when Sateeja said that he and his wife spotted a red cloth outside their house, but ignored it. The next day, they noticed that the red package had been mo.