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Bombay High Court, Mumbai Courts and Banks Evacuated After Email Threats Declared Hoaxes

Investigators are tracing anonymized emails following similar alerts that emptied multiple Ahmedabad schools a day earlier.

Overview

  • Bomb squads cleared the Bombay High Court and magistrate courts in Bandra, Andheri, Esplanade and Mazgaon after evacuations, with hearings resuming around 3 pm.
  • Threat emails also reached two banks in south Mumbai and the Nagpur District and Sessions Court, where searches found no explosives and officials labelled the alerts false.
  • Police registered cases and opened a cyber‑forensic probe into Outlook‑based messages, with a preliminary lead pointing to a single fake account and an IP trail to Israel that officials said remains unverified.
  • The emails cited RDX and judges’ chambers and included politically charged claims referencing intelligence agencies, which police noted fit a recurring hoax pattern.
  • On Wednesday, 10–12 Ahmedabad schools received similar emails naming figures such as Amit Shah and Lawrence Bishnoi; bomb‑disposal sweeps found nothing and authorities issued advisories as classes prepared to run normally.