A 51-year-old man accused of sending a bomb threat email to the Bihar Chief Minister's office has been arrested by Bihar Police from Kolkata, a senior police officer said.
On July 16, the CMO received an email from an unidentified account claiming to be associated with Al-Qaeda. The sender of the email threatened that the CMO premises would be "blown up with a bomb," and stated that even the special police of Bihar could not prevent it.
The bomb threat email received by a school in Delhi's Greater Kailash area turned out to be a hoax by a 14-year-old to skip school, police said on Saturday.
An express train going from Jammu to Rajasthan's Jodhpur was halted at Kasu Begu station in Firozpur, Punjab after police received a phone call regarding a bomb threat onboard, officials said on Tuesday.
Police said that it was an apparent case of "mistaken identity." However, the immediate action by the alert conductor and driver is appreciable in view of public safety.
According to the officials, the call was received from the Narela area near Chanchal Park, Bakarwala near CNG Pump Nangloi, and Najafgarh Road. Two fire tenders were also rushed to the site.
The Delhi Fire Department said that information stated that a bomb was suspected in a cluster bus on route 961 (Nagloi to Najafgad road) and the bomb squad was called by Delhi Police.
According to police, the threat email from an unidentified user was sent to the official email of PM Shri Kendriya Vidyalaya, located on the IIT campus in Indore's Simrol, on July 17. Following the receipt of the threat email, the school authorities approached the Simrol police on July 18
A Vistara flight travelling from Thiruvananthapuram to Mumbai, received a bomb threat on Friday, prompting an extensive security search of the aircraft.
The Air India call centre in Mumbai received the threat in the early hours of Tuesday for flight AI-149, scheduled to fly from Cochin (COK) to London Gatwick (LGW).
The Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport in Indore city of Madhya Pradesh on Friday received a hoax bomb threat after which the case has been registered against unidentified persons in this connection, officials said.