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Bomb-Threat Email to Delhi Assembly Triggers Citywide Sweeps, Probed as Likely Hoax

The response reflects a caution-first posture at high-value government sites pending digital verification.

Overview

  • Delhi’s Legislative Assembly received a threat by email Thursday morning at 8:14 a.m., triggering an immediate security drill across key sites.
  • Police, bomb squads and dog teams searched the Assembly, the Secretariat, schools and the Kashmiri Gate metro station, and found nothing suspicious.
  • Police consider the message likely a hoax and are keeping security tight with extra staff and controlled entry and exit points in central zones.
  • Cyber teams are tracing the email’s origin as officials verify reported details, including a named Gmail account, political slogans and references to schools and a metro station.
  • A separate email to the Bihar Assembly on Friday set off searches and an evacuation in Patna, with no explosives confirmed so far.