Gautam Gambhir, the head coach of the India men's cricket team, is under police protection after receiving threatening emails. The Delhi Police are investigating the threats, which arrived on April 22, the same day as a terrorist attack in Kashmir. The emails, purportedly from "ISIS Kashmir," contained messages like "I KILL YOU.
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