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.
Two FIRs were filed after posters will slogans to boycott the Lok Sabha elections in the national capital were found on the walls at multiple points of the sprawling Delhi University campus on Thursday, police said.
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 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
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.
Amid the ongoing probe into the Delhi bomb threat case, it has been revealed that the Sanskriti School in Delhi's Chanakyapuri area received not one, but two bomb threat emails, as per reports.
"We have received more than 80 calls in Delhi only. There were calls about bomb threats, and we responded to all the calls and sent fire tenders to all the locations. But some schools have started sending their vehicles back. I believe all these calls are likely to turn out to be hoaxes,"
After over 60 schools across Delhi-NCR received a bomb threat via email on Wednesday morning, setting off panic among parents and faculty and prompting frenetic searches, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued an official statement saying that the email appeared to be a 'hoax'.