Jamshedpur, Jan. 16: An e-mail sent to a friend of L.K. Advani’s son Jayant Advani led to the arrest of Mantreswar Jha alias Kumar Aman, who was posing as deputy Prime Minister’s son and cheating people.

According to highly-placed police sources, the accused had sent an e-mail to Mumbai using an e-mail address similar to that of Jayant Advani.

The recipient of the mail was a close friend of Jayant. He replied to the mail, but later spoke to Jayant about it. The deputy Prime Minister’s son became suspicious.

The intelligence bureau was asked to probe it and the trail led to the city, where the sleuths busted the fake e-mail racket.

Late in the evening, Mantreshwar Jha alias Kumar Aman was forwarded to judicial custody.

The police have also moved a petition to take Jha into 10-day police remand after producing him before assistant chief judicial magistrate O.P. Srivastava at his residence.

The compact discs and the floppies that the police seized from Kumar Aman’s house is still being scanned. So far, only two floppies have been scanned. “The little that we have come to know after scanning the hard disc of the computer seized from the suspect is that he had tried to build a rapport with senior bureaucrats, ministers and film personalities and tried to project himself as a computer engineering graduate,” said deputy superintendent of police (headquarters-II) Rajiv Ranjan.

The DSP said the accused, Kumar Aman, also had an e-mail address similar to the one that Jayant Advani had and was sending e-mails to various parties from this address.

“He used to communicate from this e-mail address. We will delve deeper into the matter so that we can come up with more facts. This is just the beginning,” he said.

“We have to find out the motive behind the mails. We might take the accused to New Delhi depending on what the CDs and the floppies yield,” he said.

The DSP said, “Possessing forged documents and attempts to impersonate someone are criminal offences. The police do not need to lodge complaints against any wrong-doer.”

Probationary IPS officer Saket Kumar Singh, who is also looking into the case, said no one has come forward with any complaint against Kumar Aman so far and claimed that the police were taking the action against Aman on the basis of the material evidence collected from his possession.

Kumar Aman’s father B.N. Jha claimed that his son cannot cheat anyone. “The police are confused about Aman. He is not the kind of person to harm anyone,” said Jha, who was awaiting for his son’s arrival with the police party at the court lock-up for judicial remand.

His father said, “Aman had left home five years ago and we knew that he was working in Delhi. It is surprising that he has been arrested for cheating people by posing as L.K. Advani’s son.”