A man sent a bomb threat via email to the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation BMRCL on November 13, warning that he would blow up one of the metro stations if his “ex-wife was tortured.”
The threatening email was received at 11:25 pm on November 13 and was sent to the official email from a Gmail account with the ID rajivsettyptp@gmail.com.
A senior BMRCL official filed a police complaint, and an FIR was registered by Wilson garden Police after verifying the email. The FIR was regitsered under sections 351 (2) and 351 (3) under the BNS for criminal intimidation.
Bengaluru, Karnataka: BMRCL received an email threat warning of a possible blast at a metro station. The unidentified sender accused metro staff of harassing his divorced wife and threatened to attack a station. After verifying the email, BMRCL filed a complaint, and Wilson… pic.twitter.com/h6Vzo010bk
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The email read “If ever I come to know that your metro employees are torturing mentally to my past divorced wife Padmini after duty hours, be careful, one of your metro stations gets blasted ... I am also a terrorist liker PATRIOTIC against Kannadigas.”
Security checks and surveillance, including bag and passenger checks at the metro stations, have been tightened after the threat was made.
Authorities are focusing on identifying the sender’s location and their intentions.
There has been a rise in bomb threats in several cities in India. Recently, a software engineer, Rene Joshilda, was identified as the person behind multiple bomb threat mails sent to schools across Bengaluru. She was jailed in Ahmedabad after being accused of sending multiple threatening emails using the name of her lover to get back at him for refusing to marry her.
The woman used a VPN and a virtual mobile number generated through an app to create a WhatsApp account and mask her digital footprint. She had sent the threats to institutions in Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Kerala, Bihar, Telangana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, and Haryana. |
