Investigators have also found similarities between the terror message and the email sent from the internet protocol (IP) address of American national Kenneth Haywood
Message similar to the one sent from Haywood’s IP address on July 26
MUMBAI: The email allegedly sent by Indian Mujahideen on Saturday mocking the investigations into the July 26 Ahmedabad serial blasts and warning of more terror attacks in Gujarat and Maharashtra has been traced to a college in Matunga.
Investigators have also found similarities between the terror message and the email sent from the internet protocol (IP) address of American national Kenneth Haywood minutes before the Ahmebadab blasts.
“The email sent on Saturday has been traced to the internet protocol address of GN Khalsa College in Matunga,” said Parambir Singh, additional commissioner of police, Anti-Terrorism Squad.
Indian Mujahideen, believed to be an offshoot of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (Simi), has taken responsibility for the Ahmedabad serial blasts.
According to police sources, the latest email was sent from the computer cell of the college at around 7.10pm on Saturday. The cell remains open till 7.30pm, police said.
ATS teams seized the router and a couple of computers from the cell on Sunday. “We will send the computers for testing to the Kalina Forensic Laboratory,” Singh said.
The police also questioned the college staff about the students present in the cell on Saturday evening. Preliminary investigations revealed that at least five students were present in the cell around the time the email was sent.
Senior police officials said that format of the email sent from the Khalsa college IP address was similar to that of the one sent from the IP address of Haywood. The signatures at the end of the two emails also resemble, they said.
“Both emails were written partially in English and Urdu. We will investigate and try to ascertain the link between the two,” said a senior police official requesting anonymity.
“Even in this case, the WiFi connection has been used to send the email. Also, so far, the router inside the computer cell has shown no record of email being sent at the time, which means there is a possibility that the email was sent by someone who came within the network and sent the email,” the officer said. Police are probing the possibility that the email was sent through the WiFi network by miscreants accessing it from outside the college campus.
Khalsa College principal Ajit Singh said the college administration was extending full support to the police in their investigations. Refusing to say much, he said, “I will be able to comment only after the reports are submitted to me.”
A similar email was sent to the media, allegedly by the Indian Mujahideen, minutes before the serial blasts in Ahmedabad on July 26. The investigating agencies traced the email to the IP address of Haywood, who was living in a flat at Sanpada in Navi Mumbai. He has since left the country with his family and gone home to Arizona. According to police, the email was sent by hacking into Haywood’s WiFi network.
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