E-mail on 7/11 lands prankster in police net

BHOPAL: "Mumbai blasts were to avenge the desecration of Meena Tai's statue." The source of this claim, sent via e-mail to a local Hindi daily turned out to be a 22-year-old errant youth, who meant this as a prank and had no connection with 7/11.

The police, however, were not amused when they worked relentlessly for six hours to track the source of the e-mail and finally picked up Sumit Tamrakar, a Class XII dropout who sent the mail from a cyber cafe in old Bhopal area.

Bhopal SP Anant Singh received a call from the daily in the early hours of Wednesday, informing him of the contents of the e-mail which claimed responsibility for Mumbai blasts.