Puducherry police seek central agencies’ help over spate of hoax bomb threats

PUDUCHERRY: The Puducherry Cyber Crime Police have sought the assistance of central agencies, including the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), to investigate a series of hoax email threats targeting key government institutions and a premier medical facility in the union territory.

According to authorities, the emails are being routed through servers located outside India and sent from multiple email IDs originating from different countries. This has been throwing challenges in efforts to trace their source. Officials believe that the use of foreign-based servers and airmail-style anonymous communications are posing challenges to the investigation.