NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Saturday arrested a 47-year-old unemployed man from Mysuru for allegedly sending hoax bomb threat emails to hundreds of schools, courts and other institutes in Delhi, Karnataka and other parts of the country in the recent past. He is being brought to the capital for interrogation.Acting on a tip-off, police picked up Srinivas, alias Louis from his rented house in Mysuru’s Brindavan extension. He had allegedly been sending these messages from multiple undisclosed locations.During initial questioning, Srinivas is said to have admitted to tagging multiple schools and institutes in each of his emails, in the process targeting 900 to 1,000 of them.According to police, Srinivas, who is originally from Bengaluru, may have been suffering from mental distress. He is unmarried and lives with his mother in the house in Mysuru. Though he holds a postgraduate degree, he is currently unemployed. His mother, a retired govt employee, runs the family on her pension. He also has a brother who lives separately.After a hoax bomb threat was received at Delhi High Court, a judge filed a complaint, following which a case was registered. Other FIRs were also registered following a string of threat mails. Delhi Police swung into action and traced the suspect through a combination of technical surveillance and manual intelligence.A team of cops from New Delhi district cyber police station reached Mysuru and, with the help of personnel from V V Puram police station, conducted a raid at Srinivas’s house. A laptop and multiple SIM cards were seized.After he was picked up in the morning, he was produced before a judge and taken into police custody. He was then formally handed over to Delhi Police and was being brought via transit remand to Delhi till reports last came in.On March 25, for the second consecutive day, Delhi Assembly received a bomb threat email. Last Sept, the high court was evacuated following a similar hoax email. Police are probing whether Srinivas was behind these threats as well.
