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Ten Ahmedabad schools receive bomb threat mail a day before Lok Sabha polls
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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The threat mail came in less than a week after over 200 schools in Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR)received bomb threat e-mails that created scare of an unprecedented scale.
As many as 10 schools in Ahmedabad received an email on Monday, May 6, threatening bomb blasts, though a police statement said this was a hoax as searches failed to unearth anything suspicious. The threat mail came a day before the state will vote in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.
After being alerted, police as well as bomb detection and disposal squad, dog squad and Crime Branch teams reached these schools and conducted a thorough search, a statement by Ahmedabad City Crime Branch informed.
“No explosives were found during the search operation. Our teams are patrolling these areas and technical surveillance has also been initiated about the sender of the email. We appeal to people not to panic and to stay away from rumours. This threat was a hoax,” the statement said.
The threat mail came in less than a week after over 200 schools in Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR)received bomb threat e-mails that created scare of an unprecedented scale. The FIR registered in the case has stated that the intention of the bomb hoax e-mails received by the schools was to create mass panic and disturb public order in the national capital. It was registered against unknown persons.
On May 1, over 200 schools in Delhi-NCR received a hoax bomb threat via e-mail which led to widespread panic among parents and students, prompting authorities to suspend classes and ask parents to pick their wards from the schools.
Police sources said the investigators have used their social media intelligence teams to examine the e-mail ID — ‘sawariim@mail.ru’, and that they have approached the Russian company to trace the IP (internet protocol) address of the device from which the e-mail was sent. A senior police officer has confirmed about the development.
According to police, the investigators have suspected that the sender has used the VPN (virtual private network) to hide his identity while sending the e-mail.
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