Explainer: Over 100 schools bombed in 9 days, why are Delhi Police empty? Explainer: Over 100 schools bombed in 9 days, why are Delhi Police empty?

Delhi Bomb Threat: For the past few months, Delhi-NCR has been receiving bomb threats from schools, hospitals, airports and airline companies through emails. But the Delhi Police has failed to find out who is sending these threats.

Delhi News : More than 100 schools in Delhi have received bomb threats in the last nine days. Parents are in panic and the school management is worried. Since May this year, over 50 bomb threats have been received via email not only targeting schools in Delhi, but also hospitals, airports and airlines. However, the Delhi Police has not got any success in these cases so far. After all, why are the hands of the Delhi Police empty in such important matters related to national security?

1. A unit of the Special Cell of the Delhi Police has been tasked with investigating bomb threat cases. According to the police and experts, 'virtual private networks' (VPNs) and 'proxy servers' are the main obstacles in dealing with this problem. The legal provisions in the country to get information from these services are inadequate.
2. A police officer said, "Our investigation is ongoing. We are working to trace the source of the sender of the threat. While their servers or domains have been found in European or Middle Eastern countries, the actual source has not been verified as the emails were sent using 'VPN' or 'proxy servers'," the official said.
3. According to senior officials, the Delhi Police has written to service providers like Google, VK (known as 'Mail.ru') and 'Outlook.com' to get the IP addresses of the threateners. In some cases, the police have received replies but have not been able to ascertain the exact source. The Delhi Police has also sought Interpol's assistance through central agencies.
4. 'India's hands tied': Cyber law expert and Supreme Court lawyer, Dr. Pavan Duggal said that the problem is that there is no dedicated law to regulate the use of VPNs in India. "Although sections 1 and 75 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 empower investigators to conduct investigations outside India, the reality is that India cannot exercise this power against VPN service providers operating from abroad," Duggal said.
5. In the last nine days, several schools in Delhi have received bomb threats via email, following which security agencies have launched search operations. "Though nothing suspicious has been found in the searches conducted following any threat so far, we cannot take any threat lightly. Every message was treated seriously and thorough checks were carried out following all safety protocols."