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Bomb Threat at Mumbai's BYL Nair Hospital Triggers Search; No Device Found

Police are verifying the source of the message as part of ongoing probes into serial email threats that led to a recent arrest in West Bengal.

Overview

  • The hospital received an email around 11:19 p.m. on Saturday warning of a blast at 4 p.m. and telling doctors and staff to stay alert.
  • Mumbai Police's bomb squad conducted a thorough sweep of the premises and reported no suspicious objects.
  • Agripada Police said no FIR or non-cognizable case has been registered so far and a diary entry has been made as efforts to trace the sender continue.
  • In a separate incident earlier this week, the IMD office in Hyderabad received an email claiming 14 RDX bombs, staff were evacuated, searches found nothing, and a case was registered.
  • Days earlier, Mumbai Police arrested 28-year-old Saurav Biswas in New Barrackpore over nearly 50 threat emails to institutions nationwide, with no confirmation of any link to the hospital email.