"Affecting classes and students": Delhi Special CP reacts to bomb threats to schools

By Ravi Jalhotra
New Delhi [India], January 10 (ANI): The schools of the national capital Delhi have been receiving repeated bomb threat calls and emails for the past several months.
Delhi Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Ravindra Yadav said on Friday that this issue is affecting the classes and students, adding that such emails are difficult to trace, as they are sent using a VPN (Virtual private network).
Speaking to ANI on the issue of bomb threats, the special CP said that such emails are usually bogus and pranks and many times sent by some students to cancel exams and classes but police cannot take any chance and hence they carry out proper checking and bomb detection drills.
"This is affecting the classes and students. The emails are sent through VPN which it difficult to trace the location and sometimes when it gets traced, we get to know that it was bogus emails sent by students only to cancel classes and exams. But, we can't take chances so when such incidents happen, we have to carry out proper checking of the premises ..." Yadav said.
Recently on January 8, several schools in Delhi received bomb threat emails.
Last year over a hundred schools in the national capital received similar bomb threats later that turned out to be hoaxes.
On December 14 and 17, several schools in Delhi had received bomb threat emails. Similarly, on December 13, a total of 30 schools across Delhi were targeted with hoax bomb threat emails.
The Special CP further cautioned against young people joining gangs, which subsequently exploit the younger people, and that the police are continuously monitoring cyberspace to track them.
"Our people continuously patrol cyberspace...The youth immediately gets attracted towards the bad stuff ...They get attracted because they find glamour behind it," Yadav said.
Urging parents to keep an eye on their kids, the special CP added, "They (young people) are unaware of the other angles...They join the gangs and the gangs exploit them...They use them (youth) for crimes and their family has to suffer too...I would request the parents to prevent the youths from getting trapped in such situations."
The Special CP Yadav also narrated instances where one module was busted for sending threats to hospitals in the name of Lawrence Bishnoi.
"We have busted a module in which two people, one from Gokul Puri and one from Mainpuri, both of them wrote threat letters to 10 hospitals and top doctors in the name of Lawrence Bishnoi," Yadav said.
Elaborating further on the investigation, it was later revealed that there people were petty cheats who did not have any gang association, but instead just wanted to cheat money by acting as gangsters.
When the accused was caught, we came to know that they did not belong to any gang, and they did this to get money... There was a panic situation at the hospitals when they received such a letter...such incidents create panic which should not be spread in society," the special CP added. (ANI)