A terror mail threatening to kill the Chief Minister and his cabinet was received by the CMO, but authorities sat on it for five days

Bomb in your inbox, Mr CM!

A terror mail threatening to kill the Chief Minister and his cabinet was received by the CMO, but authorities sat on it for five days

Finally, a complaint was lodged, that too by a cop who merely happened to hear about the mail. The CMO staff seemed to have nothing but lame excuses for not acting on time, chief among them being that Yeddyurappa was on tour.

A screenshot of the e-mail, which threatened to kill the CM and his cabinet members

The CM's secretary received the mail at 4.32 pm on August 29. However, he did not lodge a complaint, citing that higher-ups had to be consulted before any action could be taken.

Graphic threat

The email has a photograph of the Vidhan Soudha on top along with an AK-47 on one side and a masked man on the other. A copy of the email has also been marked to a city-based NGO.

It was only when inspector Ashok, who is posted at Vidhan Soudha, heard about the e-mail through his sources, that a complaint was finally lodged, with him as complainant.
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The email, a copy of which is exclusively with MiD DAY, has been sent from the Id naveedcomphydo786@gmail.com and mentions JIHAD Pakistan in the subject line.

On learning about the email, Ashok approached the undersecretary, Veeranna, who confirmed the incident to him.

The e-mail has a photograph of the Vidhan Soudha on top along with an AK-47 on one side and a masked man on the other.

Ashok then spoke to Siddalingesh, in-charge of the Internet section at the CMO, who corroborated the matter. He was surprised to learn that no action had been taken so far.

Considering the gravity of such a threat, Ashok decided to take matters into his hands and lodged a complaint. "We have sought the help of cyber crime experts to locate the IP address of the computer from which the mail was sent," Ashok said.

"Initially, we thought that it could be a hoax email, sent by someone to spread panic. We are sure that we will track down and apprehend the sender soon," said a police officer investigating the case.
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However, he refused to issue an official statement on the matter. Meanwhile, the Central Crime Branch sleuths are also conducting a parallel investigation to track down the sender.

The CMO staff and cyber crime sleuths were not available for comment.

A case of the curious caller

On September 5, a man was arrested in Nasik by the ATS for allegedly making a prank call to Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan's official bungalow.

The man, identified as Harish Chandra Yadav, claimed to be an Al-Qaeda member and asked for Chavan's whereabouts. The police found a diary on him, which had details of various policemen and politicians.

Eight SIM cards were also recovered from him, but the police said that Harish had no links to any terror group. When produced before a local court he was remanded in five-day police custody.

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