Authorities in Bihar and Jharkhand have arrested two individuals linked to an inter-state network responsible for sending bomb threat emails. The arrests were confirmed by police on Tuesday, as they continue to investigate the broader implications of this scheme.
The accused were identified as Roushan Kumar of Bhagalpur and Gulshan Kumar Singh of Deoghar. As many as 5,13,847 email IDs and passwords were found on the devices of one of the accused, a senior police official said. A device used by Kumar to operate the bomb-threat email account was seized and contained 7,215 email IDs and their corresponding passwords, according to police officials.
Technical analysis of the email communication and other digital trails led the Gujarat Police Cyber Centre of Excellence (CCoE) to Bhagalpur in Bihar and Deoghar in Jharkhand, said Gujarat Police (CCoE) officials. Officials investigating the matter have found that Singh was supplying lists of email IDs and passwords to people in different parts of the country for use in sending threat emails, police said.
The investigation commenced after the Gujarat Secretariat received a bomb threat email on September 10.
