Pune (Maharashtra) [India], June 6: Cybercrime refers to criminal offences committed against individuals, businesses, governments, or other organizations using digital technologies, including computers, mobile devices, and the Internet, as a means or target for the commission of the offence.
Three hotels in Karnataka's Bengaluru received bomb threats on Thursday received Bomb threats, including a five-star Hotel, The Oterra, said Deputy Commissioner of Police South East Bengaluru.
Amid the political free-for-all between the ruling AAP and the BJP over the alleged assault on Rajya Sabha MP and former DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal; the accused former personal secretary of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Bibhav Kumar, was arrested on Friday, Delhi Police confirmed.
Several schools in Kanpur received bomb threats through emails, triggering panic in the city. This comes amid a spate of such emails threatening schools and hospitals in several cities including Delhi-NCR and Jaipur.
The hospitals that got bomb threat emails include -- Dada Dev Hospital in Dabri, Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Hospital in Hari Nagar, Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital in Dilshad Garden, Hindu Rao Hospital in Malka Ganj, and Aruna Asaf Ali Govt Hospital at Rajpur Road.
Ahmedabad Crime Branch JCP Sharad Singhal told ANI, "On May 6, 36 schools in Ahmedabad received bomb threat emails... After immediate inspection, it was revealed that the intention was to spread fear... An FIR was registered with the cyber crime branch... The mail was sent through a Russian
In a post on X, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Home Affairs posted, "The Home Secretary reviewed the situation in the wake of hoax emails received by some schools in Delhi last week. He stressed the need to prepare detailed protocols and SOPs to handle any such situation in the future.
The Ahmedabad Police jumped into action on receiving the emails and started an investigation. The police did not find any suspect or explosives at any of the schools, they said.
This comes days after multiple schools in Delhi recieved bomb threats. According to the Delhi police, a total of 131 schools recieved threat emails on May 1.