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- Delhi Police say most unsolved hoax bomb threat emails were routed through VPNs and overseas servers, masking the senders’ identities.
- Investigators say requests for information often run into encryption and cross-border jurisdiction hurdles.
- With threats rising for nearly two years, ministry-level discussions are underway on possible regulation of VPN services in India.
In December, Vikas Sharma and his wife were at their workplaces when Sharma received a sudden call from his children’s school. Yet another bomb threat had been reported at the school.
Sharma rushed to pick his three children from New Delhi’s DAV Public School in north-west Delhi’s Pushpanjali Enclave, but due to the threat the cab driver refused to go near the school gates. As he lives some distance away from the school, Sharma was forced to request another parent who stayed closer to keep his children at their house temporarily and could only pick them up hours later when the threat was declared a hoax.
“Suddenly when such a bomb threat comes, our entire life gets disturbed,” he told Outlook.
Over the past 18 months, such disruptions have become routine for hundreds of families across Delhi and neighbouring Gurgaon where schools have been receiving these hoax bomb threats almost on a daily basis. Schools are evacuated, fire tenders line up outside school campuses to prepare in case an actual bomb causes fire, bomb disposal squads sweep through nooks and corners of classrooms and corridors.
Sharma, 44, a businessman, has a daughter in Class 10 and two sons in Class 6 who are now experiencing the psychological impact of repeated evacuations and threat drills. "For the children, the experience of being rushed out of classrooms, seeing police and bomb squads, and hearing words like ‘bomb threat’ can be frightening," he says.
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BY Outlook News Desk |
