Mumbai Police forms special team to probe emails threatening blasts in city

Mumbai Police has formed a special team to investigate emails threatening blasts in city an official said on Saturday reported the PTIRecently complaint of an email was received by the police from prominent institution in the cityThe emails which threatened that bomb blasts will be carried out at multiple places in the city were termed as a hoax after security checks by the Mumbai Police officialsThe team is trying to trace the sender of the emails from the IP address from where they originated said an official of the Colaba police station as per the PTIThe mails were sent from a single email ID and the sender had not been identified yet he added according to the PTIA First Information Report FIR was registered on Friday against unidentified persons after the management of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum in Colaba received an email which said bombs had been planted at more than eight locations including the museum Nehru Science Centre in Worli and Byculla zoo in central Mumbai the news agency reportedThe other institutions named in the email received the same threatThe Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad searched the museum located in south Mumbai but nothing suspicious was found the official saidA case under Indian Penal Code sections 505 1 b circulating rumour with intent to cause or which is likely to cause fear or alarm to the public 506 2 criminal intimidation and other relevant provisions was registered at the Colaba police station he addedEarlier in a similar incident the Mumbai Polices crime branch had arrested three persons from Vadodara in Gujarat on Wednesday in connection with a threat directed at the Reserve Bank of India RBI regarding potential bomb blasts at various locations in MumbaiDuring the ongoing investigation authorities revealed that the accused individuals orchestrated the threat mail with the intention of creating mischief newswire PTI reported quoting officials of Mumbai PoliceSubsequently a First Information Report FIR was registered at the MRA Marg police station in south Mumbai against an unidentified person The Mumbai Polices crime branch was then tasked to conduct a thorough investigation into the matterBased on technical inputs the crime branch successfully apprehended a 27yearold suspect from Vadodara During investigations Mumbai Police learnt that he had created the email account used to send the threat mail to the central bank Notably The suspect holds a Bachelor of Business Administration BBA degree and is employed in share market trading the PTI had earlier reportedwith PTI inputs