During an investigation into threatened emails involving Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Narendra Modi Stadium, the Mumbai Crime Branch found that the email was sent using the Protonmail platform.
Mumbai: During an investigation into threatened emails involving Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Narendra Modi Stadium, the Mumbai Crime Branch found that the email was sent using the Proton Mail platform. Not only this, but the servers of this platform are in Switzerland. An official said that this Switzerland-based company does not share its user information. Because of this, it has become very difficult to find out where this email came from.
Email from ‘bomb in plane’ came from this server
Crime Branch sources said that the same email platform was first used earlier this year for emails threatening to bomb a foreign chartered aircraft, Due to which his emergency landing was made at Jamnagar Airport. The first incident involved a chartered flight from Moscow to Goa with 240 passengers, falsely claiming that there was a bomb in the plane, Due to which the emergency landing of that flight was made in Uzbekistan. Similarly, a few days later another email was received about the same aircraft, which led to its landing in Jamnagar, Gujarat, an emergency landing.
Taking advantage of server privacy policy
Sources have claimed that in this case the user is taking advantage of Proton Mail Customer’s policy of secrecy and sending several threatening emails. According to sources, this time the email received by the NIA, was sent to the Mumbai Police for further investigation, During his investigation, Mumbai police came to know that this email had been sent using the same Proton mail platform and registered this email ID as Osama bin Laden’s Higher had gone. Sources said that the investigation revealed that the emails sent contained more than 7-8 layers of security and its domain was located in Switzerland. The agency has requested the concerned government to share more information about email IDs.
What was threatened in the email?
This threatening email reads, “We need 500 crores and Lawrence Bishnoi from your government, otherwise tomorrow we will also blow up Narendra Modi Stadium with Narendra Modi. Everything is sold in Hindustan, buy something, secure it, will not be saved from us. If you want to talk, then talk on this mail only.
