Delhi: Delhi University’s Ramjas and Miranda House colleges received bomb threats via email on Monday morning, prompting the immediate evacuation of both campuses, according to Delhi Police.
The threatening message claimed that 13 bombs filled with poisonous gas were planted on the premises and would detonate at 12:50 pm. Police teams, including a bomb disposal squad, conducted a thorough search of the entire area but found no explosive devices or suspicious objects. The threat was subsequently declared a hoax.
This incident follows a similar bomb threat email sent to the Delhi mayor’s office last Wednesday, which also turned out to be false and led to a detailed search operation by personnel from Kamla Market police station along with bomb disposal and dog squads.
Earlier on the same day, several schools in Chandigarh and parts of Punjab, the Punjab and Haryana secretariat, and the Ferozepur district court received bomb threat emails allegedly from an outfit called Khalistan National Army. Those alerts triggered evacuations and searches by specialised teams.
The surge in hoax bomb threats has intensified over the past year. Earlier this month, Delhi Police arrested a 47-year-old man, Srinivas Louis, from Mysuru in Karnataka for allegedly sending more than 1,100 fake threat messages targeting schools, high courts, and government offices nationwide. The arrest was carried out through a joint operation with local authorities.
Officials noted that such repeated hoaxes have resulted in heightened security measures, frequent evacuations, and significant disruption to normal activities at various institutions. In one case, a judge from the Delhi High Court filed a formal complaint after receiving a similar threatening email.
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