Overview
- Rajanna Sircilla and Mulugu district courts received emailed bomb threats on Monday, prompting evacuations and a halt to proceedings.
- Bomb detection squads and sniffer dogs conducted room-by-room searches at both complexes and found no devices, after which the threats were declared hoaxes.
- Police registered cases in the Telangana incidents and brought in the cyber crime wing to trace the senders, with investigators saying the messages likely came through encrypted servers.
- A day earlier, the District and Sessions Court in Mandla, Madhya Pradesh, received a similar email; police led by Superintendent Rajat Saklecha found nothing suspicious and tightened on-site security.
- Local reports say the Telangana scares are the fourth such set of hoax threats in recent weeks following earlier incidents at courts in Karimnagar and Warangal.