Overview
- Multiple courts across West Bengal were evacuated after near-simultaneous threat emails, with searches finding no explosives.
- Kolkata Police filed an FIR and tasked the Special Task Force and cyber units to trace senders and IP routes.
- State leaders held an emergency briefing and pledged enhanced protection for judicial officers handling the SIR voter-roll cases.
- Similar emails hit facilities beyond courts, including passport and post offices in Kolkata and sites in Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.
- Parties traded accusations over motive, and investigators noted common wording and masked digital trails that suggest hoaxes.