Emails threatening blasts that not less than 36 colleges in Ahmedabad obtained on Might 6, a day earlier than the Lok Sabha polls in Gujarat, have been traced to Faisalabad in Pakistan, stated Ahmedabad metropolis crime department officers Friday.
The police stated that the threats have been issued by a person figuring out himself as Tauheed Liaqat with an intention to create “concern and panic among the many folks throughout elections”. “Whereas the emails have been despatched from a Russian area identify (mail.ru), investigation thus far has revealed that the situation from the place the mails have been despatched was from the military cantonment space of Faisalabad in Pakistan. It has been discovered that the accused places out anti-India propaganda on social media and operates beneath totally different names,” stated Sharad Singhal, JCP of crime department in Ahmedabad.
The mass emails, despatched to 32 colleges in Ahmedabad metropolis and 4 colleges in Ahmedabad rural, have been despatched by means of a Russian area (mail.ru) and was termed as “hoax” by the police the identical day after searches have been performed by bomb detection and disposal squad, canine squad and Crime Department groups on the premises of the colleges. The mails have been additionally obtained days after greater than 100 colleges in Delhi-NCR obtained related threats from the identical Russian area.
A technical surveillance was then initiated to hint the sender of the e-mail, stated the officer. The police added that the accused particular person has been assuming totally different identities on varied social media platforms reminiscent of Snapchat, Twitter, ICQ (cross-platform prompt messaging software program). Liaquat had additionally assumed one other identification as Hamad Javed.
The person’s identify has additionally cropped up throughout a separate investigation on honeytrapping by alleged Pakistani brokers, based on the crime department. Additional investigation will probably be performed with help from state IB, Central IB, Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS), NTRO, RAW and different such central businesses, added Singhal.
The colleges that obtained the menace e-mail included DPS and Anand Niketan in Bopal, Udgam Faculty on SG Freeway, Calorx Faculty in Ghatlodia, Kendriya Vidyalaya at Chandkheda and Military Cantonment on Airport Street.