A mail was sent to the BMRCL’s official ID threatening to blow up a Namma Metro station in Bengaluru.
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Bengaluru police are trying to identify the person who sent a hoax email to the BMRCL’s official ID threatening to blow up a Namma Metro station.
Based on a complaint filed by Rathik Thomas, Assistant Executive Engineer (Cyber security), BMRCL, the police registered an FIR based on a court direction charging the accused under Sections 351(2) (criminal intimidation) and 351(3) ( punishment for criminal intimidation) under BNS.
According to the complaint, on November 13 around 11.25 a.m., the BMRCL office received a mail claiming that if the sender came to know that metro staff were ‘harassing his divorced wife after duty hours’, he would ensure that ‘one of the metro stations gets blasted’. The sender described himself as a ‘terrorist-like patriotic against Kannadigas’.
BMRCL authorities treated the email as a serious security threat and immediately conducted an internal inquiry before approaching the police.
Published – November 17, 2025 04:36 pm IST
