Police still clueless over bomb hoax emails to schools

The police was yet to make any breakthrough in the hoax threatening emails sent to various schools in the city. The police have sought a report from a software company to find the origin of these emails. “The investigations are in progress and we are hopeful of getting a significant breakthrough soon,” said Police Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar. Nevertheless, investigations into similar previous instances had not yielded any significant success. Last year, similar hoax emails were sent to the Golden Temple management and Sri Guru Ram Das Ji International Airport while various schools in the National Capital also received similar hoax emails around three days back. The Delhi Police was also yet to make any breakthrough in the case. Nearly three years back, a private school principal had received a hoax bomb threat call leading to panic in the city. The school was immediately evacuated as a precautionary measure. However, the police had later arrested around three students in the case. They had made the call for dodging the examinations.

Meanwhile, cyber experts in the police department indicated that the sender may have used a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or the dark web to conceal their identity. Experts explained that the dark web is not indexed by traditional search engines, making tracing extremely difficult. It can only be accessed through specialised browsers, enabling anonymous communication, and consequently, the proliferation of cybercrime.

The local police had written to a renowned US-based software company but it has failed to respond.