Security was beefed up at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE) on Monday after an email threatened to blow them up.
The email, which has been traced to Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, was in impeccable English, loaded with brazen threat and mocked the police for their “inability to detect cases”, police sources said. It was sent to the official IDs of the BSE and NSE in the wee hours of Monday and claimed a bloody attack to cause maximum casualties.
Not willing to take any chance, the police beefed up security near the NSE and the BSE and frisked and searched people entering the two premises.
A police team from the Cyber Cell of the Mumbai police traced the email to a cyber café in Lucknow. “Our team, which is now in Lucknow, is trying to trace the sender,” SM Sabde, deputy commissioner of police (Preventive), said.
The police set up nakabandis across South Mumbai looking for people acting in a suspicious manner. The email was also passed on to the Anti-Terrorism Squad of the Maharashtra police, who are conducting a parallel inquiry.
The email claimed that 10 armed terrorists had entered India and were planning to target Mumbai and its people, a senior police officer, who did not want to be named, said. “The police went into a tizzy, as the memories of 26/11 terror attacks are still fresh,” another senior officer said. “A few detentions are likely in the next day or two. We want to know the reason behind the mischief. We are taking every terror threat mails seriously.”
Last month, there were three terror emails threatening to blow up Hotel Taj, one of the prime targets of the 26/11 attacks.
