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The investigation into the devastating November 10 Red Fort blast<\/a>, which tragically claimed 13 lives, has uncovered evidence of a highly sophisticated and covert communication system allegedly used by the suspects. The Delhi Police, as per reports, are now intensely focusing on the use of dead-drop emails, a method long associated with international spy networks and sophisticated militant groups seeking to evade surveillance and maintain deniability.<\/span><\/p>\n

This method, often termed a \u201ccovert channel,” involves two parties communicating without ever sending a direct email to each other. Instead, they use a single shared draft email stored on a common platform. One party accesses the shared draft, types their message, and saves it. The second party logs into the same shared account, opens the saved draft, reads the message, deletes it, and types their reply<\/span>\u2014all without hitting the \u201cSend” button. Since no email ever exits the server, the communication leaves no digital trace in the form of conventional \u201csent” or \u201creceived” metadata, making it nearly impossible for standard surveillance techniques to intercept.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police sources familiar with the investigation suggest that this highly compartmentalised method was likely utilised to communicate with external handlers based outside India, possibly in Pakistan and Afghanistan, as suggested by earlier interrogation reports. The dead-drop system would have provided the necessary security for passing critical information, including:<\/span><\/p>\n