Man held for sending hoax threats to schools
Gurugram, March 21 -- A 30-year-old man was arrested from Ahmedabad in Gujarat on Thursday for creating 300 email IDs and giving its access to a man in Bangladesh who used them to send hoax bomb threats to schools across Gurugram, Delhi, Chandigarh, and Karnal on January 28, police said on Friday.
Police identified the suspect as Saurabh Vishwas alias Michael, who hails from Khulna, Bangladesh. Police said the suspect entered India nine years ago, allegedly created a forged Aadhaar card along with other documents registered to an address in West Bengal.
Priyanshu Dewan, assistant commissioner of police (cybercrime), said Vishwas was a part of some social media groups from October 2024, where he got in touch with another suspect, Mamunoor Rashid, also from Dhaka, Bangladesh.
"Last year, Rashid promised to pay Vishwas in USDT, a form of cryptocurrency, if he provided email addresses of people," said Dewan, adding that during interrogation, it surfaced that the motive for these threat mails was to trigger panic.
The ACP said Vishwas created at least 300 email addresses over a period of time and provided them to Rashid, receiving around USDT250-approximately Rs.23,400-last year.
Police said an FIR was registered against Vishwas under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the IT Act at the Cybercrime police station (south) on January 28....
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