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| Terror mails: real and surreal | | | | Terror threats to the VVIPs in the country have become a new demonizing fashion. Some warnings are real, as it happened prior to Ahmedabad and Delhi blasts while other are surreal which is a case of threat mails to the President of India. In the last few days, on two occasions President's security came under a threat when her website received five email threats, sending security agencies into a tizzy. The emails, hurled various allegations against Patil and also threatened her with dire consequences. Few days earlier, President had also received an email which was traced by the security agencies to Tamil Nadu. And the all e-mails were received on the President's official website -- www.presidentofindia.gov.in -- and the sender seemed to be a maniac, officials attached with the probe said. Police in Tamil Nadu had been alerted and a team of experts from central security agencies were working to find the creator of the emails. Security agencies are in touch with officials of the portal gmail.com to trace the senders of the threat mails. At a time when security agencies were busy in investigating into the e-mail episode, in an alarming disclosure, Pune police intercepted a car displaying fake national emblem, moving along the route that President Pratibha Patil was to take on during her visit to Pune. The car being driven by two persons, including a woman, were seated was spotted near the University of Pune entrance, a little away from Rajbhavan, where the President was returning for the night halt after addressing a function in the city to mark diamond jubilee of Marathi weekly 'Sadhana'. The car was intercepted around 45 minutes before the Presidential convoy passed through the route on Saturday night. The vehicle was immediately taken over by the police who escorted it to the commissioners office premises. The car used by the two was not the one which is not normally associated with government fleet of cars. The car in notice of a traffic inspector posted along the route of the Presidential convoy. The officer became suspicious when he saw the car which carried national emblem and the writing 'Government Of India'. However, the two suspects in the vehicle, however, had managed to flee; giving an impression that the woman was requiring immediate medical attention. The woman suspect, however, made the car halt midway on a pretext and both of them gave police the slip. The number plate on the car referred to one address who has left the country two-years ago. An e-mail threat by an unidentified person had been received by the Rashtrapati Bhavan on the same day, saying that the President would be targeted during her four-day Pune district tour by attackers who could come under "disguise". Though the security agencies are probing possible link between the e-mail threat and the interception of the Maruti car on the same day, but the matter attains a great importance as it is linked to no one else but with President of India. |
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