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uwahati, Sep 6 : Assam Police has sought the assistance of its Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to help in tracking an e-mail address, purportedly belonging to a militant outfit that has been issuing threats to the life of North East Students’ Organisation (NESO) advisor Artex Simre. The e-mail, which was sent to the NESO advisor recently, according to police, was sent from Dhaka but the identity of the group or the person has not been confirmed as yet.
High-level police sources in the police department, while confirming about the incident, informed that a team of Assam Police has been asked to work on the case.
However, the sources refused to divulge anything more about the case, saying, “it would be too premature to state any thing as we are combing for specific clues’.
“As the cyber crime cases of Assam Police is looked after by the CID, we have sought their assistance,” the sources pointed out.
Artex Simre, when contacted, though confirmed receiving the e-mail, however, refused to elaborate further.
The Assam Police sources further pointed out that a list of suspects has been prepared by the department and all the precautionary measures in this connection has been taken to ensure safety.
Asked whether the department has tried to established contacts with the Dhaka police in this regard, the sources divulged that they are going about it in a planned manner and if required the law-enforcing agencies in Bangladesh would be contacted.
It needs mention her that this is not the first instance of e-mail threat in the State. An explosion threat was served to the city-based Vodafone office a few months back by an unidentified person.
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