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Kochi, Oct 28 Police have registered cases of sedition and criminal consipiracy in connection with an e-mail containing threats to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is visiting Kerala next week, and President A P J Abdul Kalam.
Four persons, including the owner of the cyber cafe from where the e-mail was sent to various senior officials of the state, were being questioned by the police.
The e-mail also contained references to Parliament attack case convict Mohammed Afzal Guru and Abdul Nasser Madani, an accused in the 1998 Coimbatore blasts and now lodged in a jail in Tamil Nadu.
Apart from the owner of cyber cafe, which has been sealed by the police, others being questioned are two of his women employees and a watchman.
Twelve persons are said to have visited the cafe on October 26 when the mail was sent to at least 20 top officials of the state, including the Director General of Police and the Home secretary, police sources said.
Two cases under Sections 506 (sedition) and 120 (criminal conspiracy) of Indian Penal Code were registered at the Central Police Station here.
Senior police officials, inlcuding Central Range DIG K Padmakumar and city police commissioner K Vijayan, and officials from the anti-cyber crime squad evalauted the progress of investigation here this morning. |
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