Amid mounting trouble for former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh, a CID probe has shown that one of his men had allegedly used some spoofing software to recreate gangster Chhota Shakeel’s voice and location, Karachi, to make bogus extortion calls and then frame a businessman.

Sources in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said Shakeel never made the calls on behalf of the businessman, Shyam Sundar Agarwal. They were actually arranged by Sanjay Punamia, who apparently took the help of a cyber expert in manipulating the voice and virtual private network to show the caller’s location as Pakistan. Punamia had claimed that Shakeel was threatening him on behalf of Agarwal.