Mumbai Police Arrest Engineer Over Threat Messages to Actors

Mumbai Police arrested Bengaluru IT engineer Vaibhav Mishra over alleged threatening messages to actors Ayushmann Khurrana and Tusshar Kapoor, with investigators saying he appeared to pose as a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. Police have not established in the reports what evidence links Mishra to each message or whether artificial intelligence was used to create the voices. A Mumbai Police officer said Mishra, 30, was not linked to the gang and that investigators suspected he had invoked its name to exploit public fear. The officer said police believed he may have used AI-generated voice samples and found the actors’ contact numbers through online searches. Those points were described as suspicions, not confirmed findings, and the officer said further details would emerge after Mishra was taken into custody. The arrest was reported on November 3 by one account and November 4 by another. The reports agree that Mumbai Police arrested Mishra in Bengaluru; they do not establish a single arrest date clearly enough to resolve the difference. Police accounts said Tusshar Kapoor received a message demanding Rs 5 crore from a caller claiming to be Hari Boxer, who was described as...