Overview
- At least 10 schools in Ludhiana and multiple schools in Gurugram received threat emails on Tuesday, prompting evacuations and anti-sabotage checks, with police reporting no suspicious finds.
- Rajasthan evacuated passport seva kendras and post offices across more than a dozen districts after coordinated emails, which police later described as hoaxes following exhaustive searches.
- Police in Gujarat evacuated Vadodara’s Parul University and checked passport and post offices in Ahmedabad, Surat and Rajkot, with one mail citing ‘five cyanide’ IEDs and a 1:10 pm deadline before being declared fake.
- Jharkhand authorities swept Ranchi and Jamtara courts and Jamshedpur’s XLRI after emails that echoed earlier claims of ‘14 cyanide bombs’, while Monday’s Bokaro court scare also yielded no explosives.
- Cyber units report foreign or masked servers in several cases, and agencies are probing technical links to prior hoax campaigns, including a recent Ahmedabad Crime Branch arrest tied to earlier threat emails.