The Delhi Police probing hacking of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s and the party’s Twitter handles has received a reply from the micro-blogging site informing that the handles were operated from five countries, including the US.
The Economic Offences Wing (EOW), that is probing the matter, received a reply around three-four days back from Twitter on the Internet Protocol (IP) address used by the hackers to send derogatory tweets from the accounts, police said.
“We have got to know that the IP addresses from where the accounts were accessed don’t fall under our jurisdiction. The Twitter handle logs show both the accounts were operated from five countries — Sweden, Romania, US, Canada and Thailand. We will write to the internet service providers of these countries to share details of users with us and that is how the investigation will proceed,” said a senior police officer.
The officer said the analysis of the data shows, apart from Bangalore (main server of Indian National Congress’ media cell), these accounts were accessed from these countries on November 30 from 9.15 pm to 9.30 pm and from 10:30 am on December 1.
In case, the Delhi Police doesn’t get satisfactory details, they might have to initiate process of sending letters Rogatory to competent courts in these countries to get the details, sources said. In the matter of the hacking of the Congress website, cops are yet to get the log details from the party’s server, said the officer.
Police had lodged two FIRs in connection with the hacking of the two twitter accounts, the party website and the email accounts of Congress and Gandhi on December 1 following two complaints from Congress Chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala to the EOW.
Rahul’s Twitter account was hacked on November 30 and some obscene remarks were put out online for around an hour. On December 1, his email account was also hacked, the party had claimed. Two cases under section 66 of IT Act were registered, police had said.