Engineering student picked up for questioning

A police team from Delhi has picked up an engineering student for questioning in connection with an alleged objectionable message sent by him to President Pratibha Patil, police said on Thursday.

A police team from Delhi has picked up an engineering student for questioning in connection with an alleged objectionable message sent by him to President Pratibha Patil, police said on Thursday.

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The boy, a native of Mysore City and studying in a private engineering in Bangalore, has been brought to the city, police said but did not elaborate.

The allegedly objectionable message was sent from a website in Mysore to the cellphone of the President. The email ID was traced to a cybercafe in Chamaraja Mohalla area in Mysore, police said.

All computers in the cafe were seized by police.