Days after hoax in Delhi schools, Burari Government Hospital and Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in Mangolpuri have received bomb threat email. Delhi Fire Services officials said that search operation is underway.
Local police and Bomb Disposal Teams (BDT) are at the spot and searching the premises. So far nothing suspicious has been found, Delhi Police said.
On May 1, Around 130 schools in Delhi-NCR received bomb threats, prompting swift evacuation of students from campuses. The Ministry of Home Affairs had said asked people to not panic, adding that the threats appear to be hoax calls.
Meanwhile, top intelligence sources had hinted that the ‘hoax call’ might have been intended at creating terror.
“Bomb scare is a regular feature these days and agencies are trying to find out details from a period of time. This is happening on regular frequency now. Similar threats were reported from Bengaluru and even a few schools in Delhi earlier,” the intelligence agency sources had told News18.
Notably, four IP addresses suspected to be generated through a Russia-based mailing company, sent from Moscow but without any cyber footprint, have made central agencies struggle to obtain details about the threat mails sent to 131 schools in Delhi-NCR.
Importantly, two IP addresses were traced back to Mumbai by a government operation centre that monitors websites.
The agencies recovered basic technical details, but there is still a major breakthrough needed to identify the user of the ID. Additionally, agencies found that the mail may have been sent from the web application and not from mobile application of Mail.au, which is the largest Russian mailing platform.
Meanwhile, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla reviewed the situation last week and pressed on the need to enhance security and regular email monitoring in schools.
The home secretary emphasised on the need to prepare detailed protocols and standard operating procedures (SOP) to handle any such situation in the future.
To avoid any unnecessary panic caused by misinformation, he also asked the Delhi Police and schools to remain in close coordination for an “effective response mechanism”.
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