After a total of 55 schools received bomb threats in Jaipur via email, Rajasthan Minister and BJP leader Jawahar Singh Baidham said that there's no need to get scared adding that the incident is an attempt to disturb the law and order situation in the state from abroad.
Students and staff of these schools were evacuated following the threat messages. Police teams, along with bomb squads were rushed to the schools to undertake bomb tracing exercises.
The hospitals that got bomb threat emails include -- Dada Dev Hospital in Dabri, Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Hospital in Hari Nagar, Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital in Dilshad Garden, Hindu Rao Hospital in Malka Ganj, and Aruna Asaf Ali Govt Hospital at Rajpur Road.
Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport and over half a dozen government hospitals in Delhi received bomb threats through email on Sunday, sending authorities at the respective establishments into a tizzy.
Ahmedabad Crime Branch JCP Sharad Singhal told ANI, "On May 6, 36 schools in Ahmedabad received bomb threat emails... After immediate inspection, it was revealed that the intention was to spread fear... An FIR was registered with the cyber crime branch... The mail was sent through a Russian
In a development to the Ahmedabad schools bomb threat case, the crime branch has uncovered a Pakistani link to the bomb threats that targeted at least 14 schools in Gujarat's Ahmedabad.
The Ahmedabad Police jumped into action on receiving the emails and started an investigation. The police did not find any suspect or explosives at any of the schools, they said.
The Delhi High court on Monday sought a report from Delhi Police and the Delhi government in ten days, explaining the steps it has taken to ensure that children were evacuated safely from schools in the event of a bomb scare while hearing a plea related to hoax bomb call incident in private
This comes days after multiple schools in Delhi recieved bomb threats. According to the Delhi police, a total of 131 schools recieved threat emails on May 1.
After recent hoax bomb threats that targeted over 250 schools in the Delhi-NCR region, security forces have intensified their preparedness through a series of mock drills across various key locations in the city, including schools, airports, metro stations, and government buildings, said
In response to a flurry of concerned messages circulating among WhatsApp groups over the Delhi school bomb threat case, the Delhi Police issued a stern reminder to the citizens of Delhi to exercise caution and responsibility when sharing unverified information.