Jaipur, Jul 23: A 40-year-old man has been arrested from Gujarat for allegedly sending a hoax bomb threat email to the District and Sessions Court in Rajasthan’s Ajmer, police said on Thursday.
The accused allegedly sent the threat to the court’s official email ID through a fake email account, claiming that the court premises would be blown up.
Ajmer SP Harsh Vardhan Agarwala said the threatening email was received on the court’s official email address on July 17, following which the court administration lodged a complaint at Civil Lines police station.
Based on technical analysis of the fake email account, examination of digital evidence and intelligence inputs, the cyber cell identified and arrested the accused, Hardik Patel (40), a resident of Prabhas Patan in Gir Somnath, Agarwala said.
The accused is in police custody and is being questioned, he added.
