01 November,2009 10:37 AM IST | | PTI
A Delhi court has issued Letters Rogatory (LR) to the US authorities seeking assistance in a case relating to alleged blackmail and extortion of money from Anoushka Shankar, daughter of sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja allowed the application of the Delhi Police and requested judicial authorities in the US to help in collection of evidence in the case.
Businessman Junaid Khan was arrested by the Special Cell in Mumbai on September 14 for allegedly demanding money from Anoushka after obtaining her private photographs by hacking her emails.
In the application filed by Public Prosecutor Naveen Kumar, the police sought details of internet protocol of email ID of Anoushka from California-based Google Inc.
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The email ID of Anoushka was hacked allegedly by the accused Junaid Khan between May 11 and September 14 after his visit to Dubai and later from Mumbai.
Besides the internet protocol addresses of Anoushka's email ID, the police wanted the details relating to an email ID in the name of anoushka.soni@gmail.com which was allegedly created by the accused to send his emails to demand USD 1,22,000 in lieu of her private photographs.
The details sought from Google Inc included all deleted emails of the ID created by the accused.
During interrogation, accused Khan disclosed that he forwarded emails including private photographs of the complainant Anoushka to her ID but later deleted all the stuff from it.
