Threat to Tharoor: Forged documents used to procure SIM

Forged documents in the name of a city gym trainer were used by an unknown man to procure a SIM card from which "malicious" and "threatening" messages were sent to Union Minister Shashi Tharoor and others.

After tracing the number to west Delhi's Hari Nagar, police detained the gym trainer but investigators found him an "innocent victim as of now" and released him after lengthy interrogation.

According to sources, the same number was also used to send a "filthy" SMS to senior CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat and Manic Verma, the gym trainer at the elite Constitution Club, was detained.

However, sources said, it came to light during investigations that the mobile number was procured using forged documents in the name of Verma, residing in Hari Nagar.