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Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has received an e-mail purportedly from ‘Maoists’,threatening to blow up his residence Naveen Niwas and several other important public buildings including the police commissionerate if Operation Greenhunt was not stopped in the state.
Orissa director general of police Manmohan Praharaj told The Indian Express that the mail sent from plga@orissa.gov.in was received yesterday at the official e-mail address of the chief minister,”We are investigating the origin of the threat mail,” Praharaj said.
The mail warned that the rebels would soon target Naveen Niwas,State Secretariat and Police Commissionerate Head Quarters. Naveen Niwas is the private residence of chief minister and the ultras warned that there will be a drastic blast using cyber and mobile technology.
Bureaucrats and corrupt officials will be targeted with sophisticated weapons. It also threatened to blow up State Police Headquarters,the arms depot in 6h Battalion of Orissa State Armed Police,Orisa Computer Application Centre,Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation,Grid Corporation of Orissa,National Aluminium Company’s corporate office and office of Biju Patnaik University of Technology.
PLGA threatened that they will deploy Cyber Attack Team,which will destroy the State Internet Backbone,said a senior police official who is now investigating the details of the IP Address from where the mail came.
The mail said that the Orissa government’s official website orissagov.nic.in which was temporarily disabled earlier this month,was their handiwork. They have mentioned that Cyber Security System on the State Portal and other e-Governance system is too low and they can change the pages by writing Maoist thoughts on the State Portal.
The mail from PLGA further said that the Chief Minister may be happy over the deployment of Central Forces in the state to start anti-Maoist Operations,but it will be short-lived.
Police officials say they are worried about the e-mail as it has come from a gov.in address. “This shows the Maoists are into cyber attacks,” he said.
A similar mail was received at the chief minister’s official mail ID on the eve of Republic Day this year. The sender had then threatened him that he would not be able to see the January 26 sunrise if Subhashree Das alias Mili Panda,wife of Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda was not released.
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