Overview
- Ryan International Global School in Patiala received a threat email around 9:30 am, prompting a full evacuation.
- SSP Varun Sharma said anti-sabotage teams used bomb-detection gear and sniffer dogs to search the campus and found nothing.
- Punjab Police’s cyber wing has begun a technical probe to identify the IP and location tied to the email, with no culprit identified yet.
- Other schools declared precautionary holidays and police increased security at campuses and sensitive sites such as the Patiala railway station.
- The incident follows similar hoax emails to schools in Amritsar on December 12 and Jalandhar on December 14–15, while separate reports of a ‘Khalistani’ link remain unverified by authorities.