Overview
- The threats, which arrived Monday in Chandigarh, Punjab and Delhi and Tuesday at JNTU Hyderabad, prompted evacuations and full bomb‑squad sweeps at schools, courts, universities and government offices.
- Police said exhaustive checks found no explosives and declared the Delhi University alerts hoaxes, and Hyderabad police said the JNTU threat was also a hoax after campus-wide searches.
- Targets named in the messages included St Stephen’s, Ryan International and Shivalik schools, Delhi University’s Ramjas College and Miranda House, the Chandigarh mayor’s office, the Punjab and Haryana secretariat and court complexes in Mohali and Ferozepur.
- Several emails used Khalistan‑linked language and cited a group styling itself the Khalistan National Army, which police are assessing as part of the probe into intent and authorship.
- Technical leads reported by investigating officers point to senders masking origins through VPNs and dark‑web routing with traces to overseas servers, while a broader pattern of hoax threats persists nationwide following a recent arrest in a separate case tied to more than 1,000 fake messages.