Pramesh S Jain & Dr.Thomas (Sub-Editor)
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s many as six hospitals in and around the city received threat mail on Sunday afternoon,prompting the jurisdictional police and the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squads to swung into action and conducted a thorough search before concluding it as hoax.
The email generated from courtgroup03 ID from Beeble.com reached the admin of Narayana health, Sagar Apollo,St Philomena’s,Vimalalaya,St.Martha’s and JMJ hospital at around 3 pm.
The content of the mail is same to all the hospitals stating that explosive device inside the hospital has been placed,which will be explode in following hours.
The mail also stated that it was not a threat and asked to disarm the bomb or else blood of the innocent people will be on your hand .
The group called COURT claimed responsibility of planting the bombs.
Soon red alert sounded and all the jurisdictional police along with the BDDS teams reached the spot and carried a thorough combing operations as part of the Standing Operating Procedure .
“Even though there was a panic moment prevailed among the patients and their relatives and staff for sometime during the search operations,we are sure that it was a hoax”, a senior officer part of the operation,said .
This is a act of mischief mongers who are aware of the loopholes are resorting to trouble the police.“We get to know that this is hoax as soon as we go through the content,but we have SOP to follow” he added.
City police commissioner, B. Dayananda ordered a detailed probe and entrusting the investigations to Dr.Chandragupta,Additional Commissioner of Police, crime .
The Cyber crime police initiated a probe to ascertain the source of the email which suspected to be generated from the same sources after a brief gap.
It may be recalled that as many as 70 schools in and around the city received a email threat about plating of explosives in the premises in December last year, caused panic among the students and parents .
The Police investigations found that threat mail was generated from Cyprus-based private domain email service provider Beeble.com, which is similar to the hospitals email hoax case.
The police have approached interpole service to track down the source as the service provider is not cooperating to share the required information.
Similar threat email was sent to different hospitals in other parts of the country along with 21 hospitals in New Delhi received similar hoax mail at the same time on Sunday.
