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Police receive e-mail threatening terrorist strikes

Staff Reporter

The mail has been traced to a cyber café in East Delhi

E-mail was sent to Noida Superintendent of Police
Security at vital installations beefed up in the Capital

NEW DELHI: The Senior Superintendent of the Noida Police has received an anonymous e-mail threatening to carry out terrorist strikes at vital installations in the Capital. The mail, which was also sent to a Hindi television news channel, has been traced to a cyber café in East Delhi.

The e-mails were received around 5:15 p.m. on Friday. It is learnt that the sender warned about terrorist strikes at places of significance in Delhi and nearby areas within a week.

On receipt of the e-mail, the Noida police identified the place from where it had originated — Saroj Cyber Café on Vikas Marg.

Subsequently, a joint team of the Noida and the Delhi police raided the cyber café and rounded up its owner for interrogation. The police found that the café owner had not maintained a proper register of Internet-users.

While the computer has been seized for further investigations, the café owner is being interrogated to get a clue to the identity of the person who sent the mail.

Though the police suspect that the mail might be a prank, they are not taking any chances and security at all the vital installations has been beefed up.

The Delhi police had recently received an input from the Intelligence Bureau about plans of terrorists to create disturbance in the Capital.

Meanwhile, panic set in among passengers at the New Delhi railway station here on Friday when an unattended suitcase was found lying in a train.

According to the police, the suitcase was spotted by a police team carrying out routine check on platform no. 4 around 8 p.m.

Soon, the bomb disposal and dog squads were called in and the suitcase was thoroughly checked.

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