The Mumbai Police have launched investigations into a death threat issued to a 35-year-old scientist with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) via an email. The sender also attached two videos of beheading two people along with the email in which Rs 50,000 has also been demanded from the scientist, a Powai resident.

According to official sources, the email was received by the scientist on November 11. The scientist told the police that he checked the email around the afternoon. He then informed his senior about the email. Later, he lodged an official complaint in the matter and the police registered a case against an unidentified suspect.