Two more emails sent to media outfits and the Delhi police surfaced on Friday.
The emails, sent apparently by the Indian Mujahideen, claimed responsibility for the blast outside the Delhi high court and also warned of another attack, this time in Ahmedabad.
The server of one of the emails was reportedly traced to Moscow even though investigating agencies
have sought help from Yahoo! as the email bore a Yahoo! username.
The investigating agencies said though they were probing these email it seemed that it was a deliberate ploy to put their investigations on the wrong track.
“Though we will get to the bottom of these, it seems they want that the investigating agencies to spend more time tracking these emails rather than on the actual blast investigations. If that’s the case, then this is a new modus operandi,” an investigating official said.
Sources quoted one of the emails as reading: “... And if you are willing to know the next attack, it is 1, 8, 5, 13, 4, 1, 2, 1, 4. Till you come to know what it stands for the next blast will be done (sic). If you have any questions get back soon because we don’t have time for anything (sic).”
The sources said the code numbers used by them can be interpreted as Ahmedabad if you take the
numbers as the positions of letters in the alphabet. Addressing a press conference here, Union home
minister P. Chidambaram said the email was 'amateurish in nature' and the code could be decoded in
minutes.
He said the agencies were technically equipped to investigate such issues. “In fact, before the commonwealth Games there were a series of cyber attacks which were successfully thwarted
by our agencies,” Chidambaram added.