New Delhi, July 20
Security agencies have launched a probe to trace the origin of the an email sent to President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. It contained a threat to his life.
The email, received last evening on the President’s official website: presidentofindia.nic.in was sent from a leading web portal Yahoo, sources said.
Security officials immediately launched an operation to trace the origin of the email, they said.
The cyber cell in the Home Ministry was handed over the one-paragraph email and it was suspected that its sender could have used a fictitious name.
The web portal's India office in Mumbai was immediately contacted to help trace the sender of the mail and the place from where it was sent, the sources said.
In the wake of the blasts on Mumbai’s trains on July 11, newspapers and television channels have received a flurry of emails and phone calls from unidentified persons, who either claimed responsibility for the blasts or warned of more such strikes.
A youth named Sumit Tamrakar had been arrested from Bhopal for sending an e-mail to a Hindi newspaper that claimed responsibility for the Mumbai blasts, in what considered to be the action of a prankster.
