India, Nov. 7 -- NEW DELHI

Delhi Police are seeking help from French authorities under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) to ascertain the identity of the senders of multiple bomb threat emails this year, targeting Sanskriti School, after police traced two internet protocol (IP) addresses masked by a virtual private network (VPN) operating in France, officers aware of the investigation said.

A senior police officer said that a case was registered at Chanakyapuri police station in September based on an email received by the school on September 15 from a Gmail account. The messages contained threatening references to several locations and public infrastructure in Delhi, including schools, metro and train services, courts and police...