Karnataka High Court.
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Bengaluru: For the fourth time since June this year, the Karnataka High Court received an email warning of explosives on its premises. All threats, including the current one, were declared a hoax by the police following searches.
The latest threat was made on September 15. On the day, the email ID of the registrar general received an email from kanimozhi_thevidiya@hotmail.com.
“3RDX IEDs In High Court Premises, Evacuate Judges Soon (sic),” the email read as per the FIR seen by DH.
After searches, the threat was declared a hoax, and the FIR was registered the same day at the Vidhana Soudha police station. The case was then transferred to the Central Cybercrime Police for further probe.
Previously, the registrar general’s email ID received three emails on June 9, June 24 and July 25. The threat emails that were later declared a hoax were from abdul_abdia@outlook.com, renee_joshilda@hotmail.com and bhagwanthmann@yandex.com. Separate cases were registered at the Vidhana Soudha police station.
Police suspect that the perpetrators may have used proxies and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to hide their digital identities.