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Delhi Schools Bomb Threat: The Delhi Police Tuesday said it has tracked IP address of the emails, which threatened to blow up as many as 150 schools in the Delhi-NCR region earlier this month, to Budapest in Hungary.
Delhi Police officials said the emails, which were received by around 150 schools in Delhi-NCR, are suspected to have been sent from the Hungarian capital city.
They said the IP address of the server from which these bomb threat emails were sent, has been traced to Budapest and the Delhi Police will soon contact its counterparts in Hungary for further investigation.
The IP (internet protocol) address is a unique identifying number assigned to every device connected to the internet.
On May 1, an email purportedly sent from a mail.ru server, claimed that explosives were planted on the school premises, triggering mass evacuations and searches as panic-stricken parents rushed to pick up their children from schools.
The bomb threat which sent alarm bells ringing in the security establishment was later declared as a hoax as nothing objectionable was found from the school campuses.
The police, after filing an FIR into the case, had written to the mailing service company ‘mail.ru’ based in Russia via Interpol.
The police were investigating the IP address used to send the e-mails, besides the sender and origin of the mail to decipher the conspiracy and motive behind the bomb hoax that resulted in panic across Delhi-NCR on Wednesday.
The officials said an initial probe has led to the suspicion of a “deeper conspiracy” hatched by a terror group during the ongoing Lok Sabha polls, adding that the threat mail could have been sent by an ISIS module.
(With PTI inputs)
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