Overview
- Court staff in Mysuru flagged an anonymous email early on Thursday that warned of “13 poison gas + RDX bombs” and identified the sender as pavala.malli@atomicmail.io.
- Bomb-detection teams, sniffer dogs and security personnel searched the main K.R. Boulevard complex and the Malalawadi courts, checking 53 court halls, canteens, libraries, auditoriums, offices and parking areas before judges and the public arrived.
- After exhaustive sweeps and routine metal-detector screening at entry gates, police concluded the message was a hoax and court proceedings resumed as normal.
- Mysuru Bar Association president S. Lokesh and court officials urged authorities to use digital forensics to trace anonymous throwaway email accounts and to press charges to prevent further disruptive threats.
- The July 2 incident follows similar anonymous bomb-threat emails that rattled two city hotels on June 28 and an earlier court threat on January 5, underscoring persistent challenges in attributing and prosecuting senders who use disposable email services.