Delhi Police Commissioner gets bomb threat, turns out to be hoax
In the case of bomb hoax to 150 schools, the police have transferred the investigation of the case to Special Cell and Delhi Crime Branch.
New Delhi, May 3
The Delhi Police detained a minor for allegedly sending a threatening email to Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora on May 2.
It has come to the fore that the the Police Commissioner received the email on his official ID at 10.17 am from a Gmail user, in which the user wrote, “Bomb will explode at 2.18… there is a school near Nangloi railway station. A bomb is going to explode in that school today. Do whatever you want to do now at 2.18.”
Only a day earlier, arond 150 schools received emails containing bomb threats in Delhi-NCR. On the same evening, Amity Lucknow also received a bomb threat email.
The police approached Google and received details following which a raid was conducted and a juvenile was picked up from outside his house in Outer Delhi. The police added that he created an email ID under another name for the purpose and used a new SIM card.
In the case of bomb hoax to 150 schools, the police have transferred the investigation of the case to Special Cell and Delhi Crime Branch. The police stated that the hoax bomb emails were sent with the conspiratorial intention of creating mass panic and to disturb the public.
According to the FIR, several calls of bomb threats were received from different schools between 5.47 am and 1.13 pm. “School authorities said they had received these bomb threats on their email IDs… on receipt of the calls, PCR vehicles were rushed to the schools, district police, bomb disposal squad… were also alerted,” the FIR said. It added that an elaborate exercise was carried out across the city in safely evacuating schools and carrying out anti-sabotage checks.
The preliminary probe has shown that the emails were traced to Russian IP address. A detailed probe on the same is underway.
The police have written to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Interpol pertaining to the investigation of the case.
