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.