Overview
- Mumbai Police say 28-year-old Sourav Biswas sent more than 50 hoax emails targeting schools, metro stations and the Bombay Stock Exchange in recent days across multiple states.
- Ahmedabad City Cyber Crime detained the suspect on March 1 over a February 16 threat and later handed him to Mumbai Police for the Mumbai cases.
- Technical analysis traced the messages to New Barrackpore in North 24 Parganas, prompting a Dindoshi police team to apprehend the accused.
- Ahmedabad Crime Branch alleges he sold hacked email and social accounts via an online service, with credentials passed to handlers believed to be in Bangladesh who issued the threats.
- Police report crypto payments including about 50 USDT per account, seizures of multiple digital devices and roughly 200 Gmail IDs, and cases registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and IT Act as multi‑state and central agency inquiries continue.